Lebanon’s leading telecom provider Ericson

In the recent years the number of broadband users has rapidly increased at the same time there is also a rapid increase in the mobile data users. The more percentage mobile traffic is due to the increased number of users accessing social networking sites on the mobile devices.

As of now there are more than 1 million Facebook users and Ericson will enable them to connect anywhere at any time all over the world. By the end of 2009, Lebanon’s mobile penetration reached 60% which was higher than that of the last year. It has been predicted that there will be a rapid growth of mobile connectivity by 2010 due to large expat community who regularly visit Lebanon.

The mobile broadband will cause a giant leap in the coming years, IP based technologies and network modernization in turn lead to scalable efficiency gains in other sectors

There has been a significant increase in the users of social networking sites and this was released by UK Online Measurement. According to the report these days’ customers use broadband for various purposes and for the past three years the trend has changed completely. According to the data, sixty five percent spent more time online when compared to the April 2007.

Decrease in rates, increased affordability, wider range and better access has helped to soar up the internet business. While coming to online activities social networking and blogging ranks first, second comes the email, the usage of email has lowered to due to social networking, but still seven perecent of them use internet regularly.

For the past three years social networking accounted for just nine percent, but it has reached an enormous growth of three hundred and forty percent. Three percent of online users use it regularly for reading the news.