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This is a speed test from the free wifi zone at Amman airport, provided by ISP Zain.

Let’s compare this to the speeds in Beirut airport which only offers 30 minutes of free wifi from leading Lebanese ISP, IDM.

Waiting…

Hmm. I tried three more times but it seems the internet was off.

So let’s compare this free public connection in Amman to my home connection in Beirut.  At 5 mbps download, Jordan airport is 5 times faster than my $100 per month home connection in Beirut. In terms of upload, the airport’s 2mbps connection it is almost 20 times the speed of Beirut.

Over the last six years, Lebanese telecom officials have been promising Lebanon’s internet will be world leading. Seems we have a ways to go.

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Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 15 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.

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