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70% of the Lebanese will not be able to buy cell phones: the cheapest phone is 3 times the minimum wage

70% of the Lebanese will not be able to buy cell phones: the cheapest phone is 3 times the minimum wage

In the past and before the financial catastrophe, a large segment of the Lebanese would prefer buying a new phone than repairing any malfunction or breakage in the old phone, and there is a segment that periodically resorts to replacing the old phone with a newer one. Samsung and Apple phones were the most popular in the Lebanese market. Today, the situation has changed, and the Lebanese is keen on his phone from any "slip" that might cost him his final exit from the world of smart phones, due to the impossibility of acquiring another phone, and the number of phones with broken screens increased in the hands of a large number of Lebanese. Phone repair requests have also been ahead of purchase orders, according to more than one phone shop owner, and a number of consumers have gone to buy Chinese phones due to their low prices.

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