Ogero's Beirut headquarters. (Credit: Philippe Hage Boutros / L'Orient-Le Jour)
Telephone stations in several regions of Lebanon are out of order due to excess pressure on the electrical generators powering them, the public telecommunications utility Ogero announced Saturday.
Telephone and fixed internet communications are at a standstill in the affected areas.
The agency's employees embarked on an open-ended strike at the end of last week, so internet and telephone outages are expected to take some time to remedy.
"Outages occurred in the exchanges of Antelias [north of Beirut], Damour, Amroussiyé [Shouf, south of Beirut], Chekka [North Lebanon] and Ras al-Nabaa [Beirut] due to pressure on the generators, which caused an interruption of services in these localities and their surroundings," Ogero said on Twitter.
Ogero employees announced they were commencing an open-ended strike from Friday to demand better working conditions. The job action follows a warning strike launched earlier last week to protest the deterioration of living conditions since the onset of the current economic crisis, ongoing for more than three years.