Telecom service down in Beirut’s Hamra, Ogero says

BEIRUT — State telecoms provider Ogero on Saturday morning announced a service outage in the Hamra quarter of Beirut, one of the capital’s leading commercial districts, the latest in a series of now regular outages amid crumbling infrastructure in the country.

Here’s what we know:

    • In a statement, Ogero said the service went down due to problems with back-up generators, which have had to take up the slack of keeping telecoms stations up as state power has dwindled to a few hours a day.

    • Ogero also announced service interruptions in the towns of Namrin and Sfira in northern Lebanon.

    • Lebanon’s telecommunications companies struggle to maintain viable services in the face of an economic crisis in which fuel and operational costs have risen dramatically.