Libya to shut down outdated telecommunication exchanges

Details: Vaughan O'Grady; Category: Service Management; 01 December 2025; 21148 views

Hatif Libya, a subsidiary of the state-owned Libyan Post, Telecommunications and Information Technology Holding Company (LPTIC), has announced the gradual shutdown of traditional telecommunication exchanges.

Official sources describe this as part of efforts to develop the telecommunications sector and build a modern and sustainable infrastructure.

In a post on its official page on Sunday, LPTIC explained that the plan aims to end the era of outdated technologies and support the transition to a modern telecommunications system that meets the needs of citizens and the business sector.

This will include increasing fibre and mobile coverage and user access, modernising systems through virtual environments, dismantling outdated equipment and deploying 4G and 5G nationwide. Cloud infrastructure and network automation are also priorities. These projects are said to be scheduled for completion by 2026.

The first phase will see the decommissioning of 70 exchanges. Fixed-line services will later be transferred to state-owned service provider Libya Telecom & Technology (LTT), which will deliver them using more modern technologies.

ADSL subscribers will not be immediately affected and will keep their service until fibre-optic FTTx projects are completed.

Ecofin says that in December 2024 LPTIC signed a strategic partnership with French telecom infrastructure federation InfraNum to support efforts to rebuild and modernise Libya’s networks, including fibre, 5G and data centres.

And we reported In November 2022 that LTT had tapped PI Works, a provider of mobile network planning, management and optimisation solutions worldwide, to deploy its EXA multi-vendor, multi-technology, automated network management solution across LTT's national radio access networks. The aim was to help improve the quality of LTT’s network coverage as well as enable opex and capex reduction.