Alfa created 500 job opportunities in six years

Alfa for Communications held last Friday its annual media Iftar under the patronage of Communications Minister Boutros Harb. In his welcoming speech, Alfa Chair and CEO, Marwan Hayek, revealed that the company has succeeded in expanding its services to nearly 2 million subscribers over 20 years, a growth which represents 3.5 times more than the total number of subscribers in 2009 when Orascom Telecom took over the management of Alfa. The latter, he said, offers its services through a wide network extending to over 2700 relay stations with 99% coverage across Lebanon. He went on to say that this huge progress in the number of clients has resulted in an upsurge of mobile service incidence in the country from 35% in 2009 to some 94% at present. Hayek pointed out that the communication sector constitutes a basic pillar of the national economy, accounting for about 9-10% of the Gross Domestic Product. He disclosed that mobile services alone account for 3.27% of the nominal domestic product, a figure which is the highest in MENA region. Finally, Hayek disclosed that Orascom Communications has created some 500 new direct jobs over the past six years. (Al Diyar, 27 June 2015)