served lebanon parent zain group website official website on june 1 2004 zain formerly known as mtc group was tendered a 4 year agreement by the lebanese government to manage one of the country s two existing mobile networks mobile interim company 2 mic2 . in november 2004 the operation was branded as mtc touch then as touch since june 2012 . it remains today the sole subsidiary amongst 6 others not to be owned by zain group . all of touch s employees are lebanese . in november 2011 touch launched 3g hspa service in the country meanwhile the company planned the construction of 50 sites that will provide 4g coverage . zain formerly mtc was founded in 1983 . as of june 30 2010 mtc touch operates in eight middle eastern and african countries with a workforce of over 5 000 ; providing mobile voice and data services to over 34.2 million active individual and business customers . on june 19 2012 mtc touch rebranded into touch and adopted a new corporate identity featuring a 3d touch print in turquoise . touch is the leading company right now in lebanon with over 2 million users . citation needed touch s only competitor is alfa telecommunications managed by orascom telecommunications . 1 in late november touch and alfa tested 4g lte connection for a second time and announced its launch in all lebanon in early 2013 . touch has now released its 4g network in mobile devices . needs update mtc touch and alfa charge customers among the highest rates in the world . 2 see also edit orascom telecom holding alfa zain etisalat mobily saudi telecom company references edit https www.alfa.com.lb aboutus companyinfo.aspx https scholarworks.aub.edu.lb handle 10938 8128 external links edit official website this lebanon related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title touch lebanon & oldid 738774920 categories telecommunications companies of lebanonlebanon stubshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from march 2013wikipedia articles in need of updating from march 2013all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 11 september 2016 at 00 25 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view