As of September, you will be paying additional taxes on newly purchased phones in Lebanon. The Ministry of Telecommunications reactivated the “DII" project that was put on hold back in 2014. The ministry claims that the main purpose of the project is to fight illegal, fake and replicated phones. Technically, phones with an invalid IMEI number affects the performance of the network as well being a security risk, since fake devices cannot be tracked by the security forces when necessary.…
