We Have A New Name, A New Home

Libya Technology News Blog found a new home, this website now called TechnoLibya, please change your bookmarks to the new address www.technolibya.com, news archive also is there.

A Rumer About LibyaMax Price

Said that the first subscription fee is 400 LYD/Yearly and the price of the USB antenna is about 200 LYD, and that people are angry so they will put the official price, right now they are in a meeting so set back relax, subscribe to my RSS and I will post the real price once I get it.

LTT Wimax Official Lunch Date In Libya

As said by trusted resources LTT Wimax service will be available in 1st of December 2008.
Today I heard from someone working in LTT that the prices as follow:
300 LYD first time subscription for all
256 Kbps 35 LYD per month
512 Kbps 50-60 LYD per month
1 Mb 150 LYD per month

Free SMS and 50% Discount From Al Madar

Free SMS from almadar

SMS “Short Messages” will be free for the last day of ramadan, also a 50% discount of voice calls.
A nice touch from al-madar al jaded company but doing it only for the last day ??, don’t say a word this is better the nothing right ^_^, expect more since communications is getting cheaper and better day after day.

iPhone Is Pretty Hot This Winter

After restricting importing Apple iPhone into Libya, the iPhone prices in the market raised to reach 1600 LYD after it was only 700 LYD last time I did check, until we get a reliable apple vendor we’re not going to buy your Cracked iPhones, let the iPhones rot in their bloody shops.

Iphone price in Libya

For your information:
Iphone is not sold any where expect the U.S. Will start selling in Europe by end of the year. You can only buy Iphone with an AT&T 2 year subscription contract, so you will end up paying a lot of money for it that is if you can have a friend or relative who is a resident in the U.S and even if you get it after paying the phone price+2 year subscription plan you will get a locked phone that only works on the AT&T network, you will need to send it to a specialist to unlock it and then it can work on any GSM network.

First Wimax Station Ever In Tripoli – PHOTO

This is a picture I just found on Flikr, click to follow the link and view the full size on Flikr.
by looking at the size of the Antena I think that photos leaked into Libyan forums was fake.

First Wimax Antenna In Tripoli

Wimax To Be Released Soon in Tripoli

LTT Wimax Station Setup

I took a longer time then promised, but we must not be greedy, it’s ramadan and everything works slower or even stops for a break, LTT actualy started to plant Wimax stations all over Tripoli, and some companies in Dahra are actually beta testing the Wimax service, the information leaked in Libyan forums says that the price will be 50 LYD for a speed of 1MB/S and that the speed rate could be up to 16MB/S, anyway this still rumor yet we need to wait to know how much really it’s going to cost and is it really as fast as 1-16MB/s.

Libya deal for firms – ZTE and Huawei

TRIPOLI: Chinese telecom firms Huawei and ZTE have won contracts worth $75 million to expand the mobile phone network in Libya, the state-run telecommunications office said yesterday.

A total of $58m has been awarded to expand the existing network of the Libyana public mobile phone company from one million lines to 6.5m lines, a statement said.

ZTE and Huawei will also expand the mobile network along the Libyan coast.

In line with a second contract worth $17m, Huwaei alone will install the first phase of a fibre-optic network in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

An Angry Blogger Attacks LTT

By the date khadija wrote the post “LTT SUCKS” I believe they offered the service of buying extra Gig’s as she said, means “Extra Bandwidth” instead of asking or reading she just started attacking the company.

My reply is that LTT offered Adsl which changed a lot in this country giving access with cheap price and fair speed even if they didn’t offer the ability to buy more gigs before the end of the month they still a good company around.

nothing personal Khadija but your old post affect’s the good work, stop random blogging READ MORE, use less ink if you know what I mean.

SAGEM F@st™ 2400/2404 ADSL modem security thread in Libya

When you subscribe to this service your phone line is connected to the LTT’s equipments which are located through out the phone company’s switches, which enables you accessing the Internet and making phones calls at the same time. We’ll supply you with ADSL modem that you can use to connect your PC to the Internet.

Nowadays they even provide you with a Sagem Modem that have wireless and network ports so it’s also a router and an access point, that’s great but it is a security thread since not all clients will secure the wireless with an access key.

This is a big problem since anyone can connect to your router may be your neighborhood and steal your bandwidth and so your money, even if you don’t care about people using your internet you must care about them playing in your setting, that wouldn’t be nice, as they can also steal your login and password that LTT provided you in the contract.

If you have this router as seen on the image:

SAGEM F@st™ 2400 / 2404

then please follow these steps to secure and protect your internet connection.

1- In your web browser type in: “http://myrouter” and press “Enter”
2- If you didn’t setup a password before type in username: “admin” and password: “admin” as it’s the default user name and password.
3- Go to wireless setting.
4- Click on generate to generate a random password “You must be connected using LAN since this will disconnect you if you are over wireless and you wont see the new password”, Or type in a manual password like your phone number that’s an easy thing to guess lol.

Thats all for now, best regards.