The head of the municipality of al-Qarqaf, Yehya al-Rifai, indicated that “the communication [services] in the village have been shut down for two weeks. (Credit: Joseph Eid/AFP)
BEIRUT — Akkar villages are struggling with an almost total shutdown in mobile and internet services from the Alfa and Touch telecom companies in the region, L’Orient Today’s correspondent in the North reported Thursday.
Here's what we know:
• According to L’Orient Today’s correspondent, fuel shortages have affected the private generators that supply electricity to several telecom stations in the villages of Birqayel, Burj al-Arab, Deir Dloum, al-Qarqaf and the surrounding localities in the Akkar area.
• The head of the municipality of al-Qarqaf, Yehya al-Rifai, indicated that “the communication [services] in the village have been shut down for two weeks, because of a lack of fuel oil.” He also criticized the fact that officials have not responded to their complaints.
• Phone and internet services have experienced repeated cuts in recent months in Akkar and across the country, due to overloading of generators and shortages of fuel, which telecommunication stations rely on, as electricity cuts increase in the country in the midst of an economic crisis.