A mobile transmission station belonging to Alfa arrived Friday afternoon in the town of Mais al-Jabal. (Credit: Muntasser Abdallah/L'Orient Today)
As part of the ongoing efforts to revive the area, a mobile transmission station belonging to Alfa arrived Friday afternoon in the town of Mais al-Jabal (Bint Jbeil), L'Orient Today's correspondent in the region reported.
The station aims to provide signal coverage and internet services to subscribers in the town and surrounding areas. The installation took place in the courtyard of the government hospital, alongside the Touch transmission station that was installed a few months ago.
The event was attended by the head of the municipality of Mais al-Jabal, Haj Habib Qabalan, the management of Mais al-Jabal Governmental Hospital and several local figures. Alfa’s signal and services will take about two days to be fully restored to subscribers’ phones.
In late April, Telecom Minister Charles Hage said that network coverage for both telephony and Internet, fixed and mobile, had been restored in 80 percent of areas in southern Lebanon.
He specified that the remaining 20 percent were still without coverage, due to destruction and the "continuing Israeli occupation."
The conflict between Hezbollah and Israel began in October 2023, alongside the war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza, and intensified in September 2024. A cease-fire was reached at the end of November 2024, but it has been repeatedly violated by Israel since. Although the Israeli army withdrew from Lebanese villages before Feb. 18, it maintains its presence at five points considered "strategic" in Lebanese territory.
About a week after the cease-fire agreement, former Telecom Minister Johnny Corm visited Beirut's southern suburbs to inspect the Ogero telephone exchange, damaged by an Israeli strike in the Mrayjeh neighborhood.
Reporting contributed by Muntasser Abdallah