Communications Minister Charles Hajj stressed that “reform often faces difficulties in its beginnings, but it turns into an option that enjoys everyone’s consensus when it succeeds.” Al-Hajj explained, in a television interview, that “the main challenge was to combine launching the reform process and providing basic services to citizens, in light of the decline of the telecommunications sector as a result of five years of accumulated crises, starting from the financial collapse and the Corona pandemic to the war, which led to the absence of the necessary investments and the threat of the sector to decline.” Al-Hajj pointed out that the reform is based on three basic pillars, starting with institutions, passing through investment, and ending with improving service. He explained that the government “chose to implement Law 431 more than 22 years after its approval,” considering that “the problem was not in the law, but rather in its failure to implement it.” Al-Hajj pointed out that “implementing the law is the basis, while it can be developed later through decrees issued by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, if necessary,” stressing that “the law is based on three elements: the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, the ministry’s structure, and Liban Telecom,” noting that “the Authority began gradually exercising its powers, even though the war hindered part of the work and delayed the implementation of some steps.” He acknowledged that "communications services are still below the required level," explaining that "the Ministry inherited old networks, but the technical teams were able to maintain continuity of service despite the difficult circumstances, especially during the war, in addition to restarting networks in the affected areas, especially in the south." He concluded by stressing that "the Ministry is working on two parallel tracks: the path of structural reforms, and the path of improving services and securing fast Internet," considering that "the communications sector constitutes a basic pillar of any modern economy."