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WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
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Lebanon
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The country's telecommunications system suffered severely from
the violence that occurred after 1975. Damage to equipment from
1975 to early 1982 was estimated at about US$150 million. At the
time of the Israeli invasion of 1982, the Directorate of Posts,
Telephone, and Telegraph was in the middle of a US$325 million 2
year rehabilitation project aimed at installing 32 new electronic
exchanges and adding 220,000 new lines. Although new telex
facilities had become operational in February 1982, only a few of
the new telephone exchanges were in operation when Israel began its
siege of Beirut in June. The invasion froze improvements in the
telecommunications system, although Lebanese authorities, with
United States financial assistance, were able to carry out
extensive repair work during the comparative calm of 1983. The
Republic of Korea (South Korea) financed and repaired some 81,700
telephone lines around Beirut in 1983 during that period, and a
local subcontractor carried out extensive repair work in East
Beirut for the United States Federal Electric Corporation until
funds dried up in 1984.
Data as of December 1987
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