Disappointing performances Oh-Gero

Both provide telecommunications services. Both have postponed going public. Both are linked inextricably to Lebanese issues. But there is much more than one tiny ‘o’ in difference between Oger Telecom, the Gulf-based multi-market provider of mobile and landline services associated with the Hariri family empire, and Ogero, the landline phone division attached to Lebanon’s ministry of telecommunications and would-be operator of a third mobile network in the country. Would be – if plans for evolving Ogero into a modern company called Liban Telecom – were implemented with key components of getting the government entity ready for privatization and adding a mobile operator license to its portfolio to make it more attractive to buyers. Lagging behind In more real terms, Ogero is the entity that brought Lebanon public pay phones early in the 21st century, rolling out some 2,700 by the end of 2004. It is also in all probability –