please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article may require cleanup to meet wikipedia s quality standards . no cleanup reason has been specified . please help improve this article if you can . march 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . march 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message alfa type private founded 1994 headquarters lebanon key people marwan hayek chairman & ceo website https www.alfa.com.lb alfa is one of the two operating gsm networks in lebanon the other being mtc touch . alfa and mtc charge customers among the highest rates in the world . 1 contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit alfa is the network name for mobile interim company 1 mic1 founded in 1994 with the name of cellis which was managed by france telecom until 2004 . in 2004 the lebanese government signed a management contract with fal dete to operate mic1 network for 4 years . fal dete substituted cellis by alfa . since 2009 orascom is managing mic1 . since 2010 marwan hayek is the ceo for alfa . according to zain group s report published in june 2014 alfa is reported to have 1.8 million subscribers the numbers have grown significantly with the influx of over a million syrian refugees in the last two and half years . 2 see also edit orascom telecom holding etisalat mobily saudi telecom company references edit https scholarworks.aub.edu.lb handle 10938 8128 https www.thebusinessyear.com lebanon 2014 connect me review 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 alfa lebanon & oldid 729375311 categories 1994 establishments in lebanoncompanies established in 1994telecommunications companies of lebanonlebanon stubshidden categories articles needing cleanup from march 2009all articles needing cleanupcleanup tagged articles without a reason field from march 2009wikipedia pages needing cleanup from march 2009articles lacking reliable references from march 2009all articles lacking reliable referencesall 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 edit links this page was last modified on 11 july 2016 at 19 42 . 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