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.

A group of protesters entered the headquarters of Libyana and Libya Telecom & Technology (LTT), forcing staff to cut internet connections and affecting parts of the country.

State-owned mobile operator Al Madar posted losses of LD62.3m ($49m) in 2011 after granting free credit to celebrate the end of the conflict, but generated a healthy profit in the previous year.

Damage to a fibre-optic cable between Misrata and Khoms disrupted telephone communications on 15 December.

The Ministry of Telecoms has awarded an LD15m ($12m) contract to China's ZTE to set up thousands of new wireless telephone and internet lines for eastern and southern Libya.  

Fixed-line telephone operator Hatif Libya has appointed China’s Huawei to modernise the landline network in the western region of the country.

The state-owned Libyan International Telecommunications Company (LITC) has commissioned works aimed at improving internet speeds in Libya.

American telecoms firm Motorola has been awarded a LD187m ($150m) contract to install a Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) system along Libya’s coast.

The Ministry of Communications and Informatics (MCIT) says an attack near Derna on the Silphium fibreoptic cable, which connects Libya and Greece, had not affected connections.

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) estimates that the number of fixed-line telephone subscribers dropped by 19% and mobile subscriptions by 4% in 2012.

UK-based Bentley Walker is set to offer satellite broadband internet provision to Libya.

The telecoms ministry aims to float the state-owned mobile operator on the Tripoli bourse next year, a move that had been originally planned for 2011. 

The deputy communications minister says that WiMAX internet will be expanded to new areas of the country, while the state-owned mobile operators will upgrade their services.

French firm Alcatel-Lucent has won a €2.3m (LD3.8m) contract to improve internet infrastructure in more remote areas of Libya.