The Lebanese government owes the public telephone sector about approximately $40 million for unpaid bills, said the head of Parliament’s information and telecommunications committee on Tuesday.
MP Abdel-Latif Zein said that the bills owed to the telephone sector were “numerous, great and overdue,” the Daily Star.
“Some people estimate the debt owed by state institutions to the telephone sector at over $40 million, especially the old bills, which have accumulated,” Zein told reporters.
He said the government “was taking all the necessary measures to collect the money.”
The MP also said: “There is no such thing as phone lines being used by unknown individuals. The phone bills are owed by state institutions, companies and known individuals. The ministry of telecommunications is doing its best to collect the money.”
Lebanon is struggling with a huge budget deficit in the wake of many years of crippling civil war and occupation by Israeli troops – Albawaba.com
