Egypt Telecommunications Research, Downloadable Egypt Telecoms Reports & Egypt Telecom Industry Overviews

 Egypt - Key Statistics, Regulatory & Fixed-Line Telecoms Overviews

Synopsis Egypt's telecom sector is performing consistently well with all sub-sectors being open to competition. The country has the largest fixed-line market in Africa and the Arab region, with a highly profitable incumbent telco (Telecom Egypt) which was partially privatised through an IPO in 2005. The end of its fixed-line monopoly in 2006 has opened up new opportunities for competitive service providers, and a second national fixed-line licence to be awarded in 2009 received strong interest from international bidders, although the process has been delayed as a result to the global economic crisis. Efforts are underway to roll out next-generation networks, offering converged IP-based voice, data and entertainment services. An increasing demand for bandwidth has led to the development of several additional submarine fibre optic cable systems to go online.

 Table of Contents 1. Synopsis 2. Key statistics 3. Telecommunications market 3.1 Overview of Egypt's telecom market 4. Regulatory environment 4.1 Background 4.2 Creation of a new regulatory framework 4.3 Telecommunications Master Plan 4.4 Legislative reform 4.5 Regulatory authority 4.5.1 National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority 4.5.2 Ministry of Communications & Information Technology 4.6 Telecom sector liberalisation in Egypt 4.6.1 International gateway licences 4.6.2 International submarine cable licence 4.6.3 Second fixed-line licence 4.7 Privatisation of Telecom Egypt 4.8 Interconnection 4.9 Tariffs 5. Fixed network operators in Egypt 5.1 Telecom Egypt 5.1.1 Wholesale 5.2 Orascom Telecom 6. Telecommunications infrastructure 6.1 National telecom network 6.1.1 Public payphones 6.1.2 Wireless local loop (WLL) 6.1.3 Next Generation Networks (NGN) 6.2 International infrastructure 6.2.1 Submarine cable networks 6.2.2 Satellite networks 7. Fixed voice market 7.1 National and international call traffic 8. Related reports
Table 1 - Country statistics - 2010
Table 2 - Fixed-line network statistics - 2010
Table 3 - Internet provider statistics - 2010
Table 4 - Internet user statistics - 2010
Table 5 - Broadband statistics - 2009
Table 6 - Mobile statistics - 2010
Table 7 - National telecommunications authorities
Table 8 - Telecom Egypt key performance indicators - 2003 - 2009
Table 9 - Fixed lines in service and teledensity - 1995 - 2010
Table 10 - Public payphones by operator - 2002 - 2009
Exhibit 1 - Major licences issued in Egypt - 2008
Exhibit 2 - National and regional fibre networks in Egypt

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