Mohamed shabib – General manager, MTC Touch

Executive talks to Mohamed Shabib, general manager of MTC Touch, one of the two cellular phone management companies, on the state and development of Lebanon’s mobile telecom sector. E Following a year of challenges, do you see the Lebanese telecommunications industry as being in a better or worse position today than 12 months ago? We are definitely very hopeful that changes are underway. In 2005, we didn’t have the opportunity to realize everything we wanted to do with the government. However, for next year we hope things will change for the better in terms of new services, network enhancement, expansions and the development of current services. E Given the turbulent events of 2005, how difficult was it for you to maintain your planned trajectory for the year? As you know this network is owned by the government so any expenditure needs to be approved by the government. Due to the