MAP > Internet Providers in Libya

Libya’s civil war has gone on to cripple country’s economy as well as disrupting the telecommunication sector. Much of telecom infrastructure has gone on to be destroyed or even stolen, and this includes about 25% of this country’s mobile tower sites. The reconstruction efforts have continued to get stymied by the political as well as military disturbances that affect much of this nation, while with 2 opposing administrations, in Tripoli as well as Tobruk, there has been no consensus as to rebuild the infrastructure on the national scale, and this is despite the attempts to be able to reach the political solutions.
Due to the difficulties as well as the heightened national security issues, the telecom services have been disrupted, and in particular in the eastern region of this country. In the year 2017, on June, the landline, as well as mobile services, got restored in Sirte, and this is after having gotten disconnected by the Islamic State, which is a group that was ejected from the city after two year occupation. Being a security measure, major mobile network provider by the name Libyana, in the year 2017 in July, went ahead and disconnected the SIM cards owned by the foreigners.

On the basis that the criminals, as well as radical groups, have been using the company’s network for the various activities. Going ahead and reregistering the SIM Card now does require proof of the ID. In early 2015, state Telco along with the other many businesses decamped to Malta, and since then, the rival administrations have fought in Maltese courts to be able to assume control of the company. An economy that largely collapsed in the year 2013 as well as 2014 with the dramatic falls in the GDP is again displaying development though this has been based on the dire base.

The economic uncertainties in the recent years have stymied the ability of the telco’s to be able to invest in the infrastructure though, in the mid-2018, incumbent Telco announced that there were plans to go and invest a maximum of .7 billion in signs of confidence in returning the social as well as political stability. Under the administration of the Gaddafi regime, the entire telecom, as well as the internet sector, was in the hands of the government, with a unique situation wherein 3 government-owned mobile networks that compete against each other. One of the networks by the name Libyana was to be privatized by the year 2014 through an IPO.