BEIRUT: Lebanon Monday slashed by up to 50 percent the price of phone calls made through prepaid cards issued by the state-run telecom provider Ogero.
“I have issued a March 27, 2014, decision numbered 148/1 to reduce the price of phone calls made through the prepaid cards Telecarte and Kalam by 50 percent for land line calls and 30 percent for cellular phone calls,” Telecoms Ministry Butros Harb told reporters during a news conference.
People using the cards will now pay LL50 instead of LL100 for every minute of call time on a landline and LL100 instead of LL200 on a cellular line.
“This will facilitate communications and better serve citizens, particularly low-income individuals such as students, workers, and users of public phone booths and domestic workers,” he said.
Harb said the move would also revive the prepaid cards market which he said had been frozen for a period of three years.
“It would also revitalize the process of selling these prepaid cards after a three-year freeze in sales which affected [Treasury] revenues,” he said, noting that the Treasury was losing $110 million annually as a result of the decline in sales of prepaid cards.
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