| Preventing COVID-19 is our responsibility - 01/03/2020 |
| OGERO |
| TELECOM/ICT Operators and Service Providers | Arab States | Lebanon |
| To cope with the spread of the Corona virus, OGERO took a set of measures including doubling free of charge, the ceiling of Internet consumption and speed for the unlimited packages, for its users encouraging citizens to stay at home and conduct their work at distance and enabling students to continue their studies online. OGERO has launched an awareness campaign calling for a reasonable use of the Internet, in particular by number of computers connected simultaneously or by reducing the quality of videos on YouTube. Noting that OGERO is maintaining local caches for the major OTT content (YouTube, Netflix, Facebook..) so its National Broadband network carried easily the surge in traffic. Some extra capacity was added where needed mainly between the major regions and Beirut to handle the additional demand. OGERO is continuously upgrading its capacity on its submarine cables and increasing the size of its international peering links in order to meet the increasing demand of the Lebanese market but it is noted that 2 months after confinement our international links are not strained. |