Lebanon has among the slowest broadband Internet speeds in the world. This has been well documented, and as Executive went to press the country was ranked 169 out of 170 by broadband monitor Ookala — putting Lebanon ahead of only Iran, while trailing directly behind Mali, Bolivia and Sudan. And not only are Lebanese Internet connections painfully slow, they are also prohibitively expensive. The grand rollout of the upgraded broadband digital subscriber lines (DSL) in Lebanon is set to take effect on October 1, according to comments made by Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui to reporters in late September. With the assumption that the plan will be realized and broadband speeds will move beyond a crawl Executive found out what the increase in bandwidth could mean for businesses here. The hold up Because of the extortionate cost of a decent Internet connection in Lebanon today — by all accounts the most
