The fixed-line telephone operator has activated 1,200 new landlines in the north-east Wahat region.

State-owned mobile operator says it has extended its coverage to areas south of Ghariyan.

The state-owned mobile operator has signed a provisional agreement with Finland’s Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN) to help provide mobile internet services in eastern Libya.

Hatif Libya, which operates the country’s fixed-line telephone network, says communications with Egypt are back to normal after a fibre-optic cable was “cut”.

The Libyan state-owned mobile operator is set to agree a contract with Sweden’s Ericsson to provide consultancy on 3G and 4G mobile services.

State-owned landline operator Hatif Libya says a fibre-optic cable was vandalised in the Sarir area in Libya’s south-east, with some disruption to services.

The Central Bank of Libya (CBL) has says it is not to blame for delays in payments to Paris-based satellite provider Eutelsat, which is said to have halted the  Libya Al-Wataniya  TV channel's international broadcasting.

Libya Telecom and Technology (LTT) is installing wireless internet service (WiMax) communication towers in Zliten.

France’s Alcatel-Lucent told the Libya Monitor that it has signed a contract worth $58m (LD74m) with the Libyan International Telecommunication Company (LITC) to install a submarine cable between Benghazi and Tripoli.

Finland-based Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN) has opened a Libya office to help bolster its ongoing telecoms infrastructure work in the country.

Hatif Libya says that an underground cable has been damaged between Misrata and Khoms, but has not caused disruption to communications.

The Deputy Minister for Communications and Informatics, Mohamed Balras Ali, has led a delegation to the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in a bid to improve IT services in Libya

Damage to an underground cable has reportedly brought down both Madar and Libyana telephone services in several areas of north-west Libya.

Hatif Libya, the state-run landline operator, says it has completed repair work on a cable that had been damaged several days earlier, disrupting communications in several north-eastern towns.

Problems with telephone signals and internet connections in central Libya have been fixed after a fibre-optic cable was damaged by road works in Zliten.