Libyan Prime Minister Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba has said that the country’s telecoms sector needs to be opened up to competition to improve services, Libya Herald reports.
Speaking at the Taqnya 2021 ICT exhibition in Tripoli, Aldabaiba criticised the sector’s poor services and high prices, saying his government will seek to increase competition by privatising the sector and allowing foreign competitors to enter the market. Warning that the state-dominated monopoly would struggle to compete with the leading private telcos, the PM complained that current services are basic and too expensive when compared to neighbouring countries, especially given the public’s reliance on mobile services.