The article deals with the relationships between the territorial splinterring and the changes of the network provision services. It shifts from linear explanations and claims the necessity to take into consideration the retroactions between territorial differenciation and the management practices. The Lebanese case, despite its apparent specificity linked to the effects of the civil war, is interresting because iseveral explicatory registers have to be combined, among which the undettered relevance of the universal network as a goal for the sector's policies, as well as neoliberal reforms. The article focuses on the electricity sector, a State monopoly whose performance is very weak, but that is still waiting for reforms to be conceived, an...