Egypt's government looking to privatise its stakes in the telecom sector
Egypt's large telecom market, supported by a population of about 107 million, benefits from effective competition in most sectors and by the government's progressive policies aimed at a comprehensive digital transformation. A liberal regulatory regime allows for unified licenses which permit operators to offer fixed-line as well as mobile services.In recent years the government has developed a number of digital migration projects aimed at increasing average broadband speeds, delivering fibre broadband to a wider section of the population, developing an in-house satellite program, and creating a knowledge-based economy through the greater adoption of ICTs. The New Administrative Capital being built by the Administrative Capital For Urban Development (ACUD) is only one of more than a dozen smart city projects, which together are stimulating investment in 5G and fibre broadband, as well as the adoption of IoT and AI solutions. The country is a significant ICT hub in the North Africa and Middle East regions, a status strengthened by the country being well positioned for international submarine cable running between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Egypt's mature mobile market has one of the highest penetration rates in Africa. Progress in the adoption of mobile data services was for many years hampered by the lack of sufficient spectrum, though the regulator addressed this in 2022 by making available spectrum in the 2.6GHz band. This additional spectrum has gone far to enabling the MNOs to improve the quality of mobile broadband services offered.
Key Developments:
Government prepares to issue 5G licences.Telecom Egypt contracts for more cable systems, increasing internet capacity to the Red Sea, the Balkans, and Central Europe.
Government looking to sell its entire stake in Vodafone Egypt.
Telecom regulator fines MNOs EGP52 million for QoS violations in 2023.
Telecom Egypt starts work on expanding its Tier III Regional Data Hub data centre.
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Table of Contents
- Key statistics
- Regional Africa Market Comparison
- Market characteristics
- Market Leaders
- Market Challengers
- Market Emergents
- TMI vs GDP
- Mobile and mobile broadband penetration
- Fixed versus mobile broadband penetration
- Country overview
- Telecommunications market
- Market analysis
- Regulatory environment
- Historical overview
- Regulatory authorities
- National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA)
- Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
- Fixed-line developments
- New Regulatory Framework
- Telecommunications Master Plan
- Legislative reform
- Unified Telecom License (UTL)
- Privatisation of Telecom Egypt
- Telecom sector liberalisation
- International gateway licences
- International submarine cable licence
- Interconnection
- Mobile network developments
- Third mobile licence
- Fourth mobile licence
- 2600MHz spectrum
- International gateways
- Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs)
- Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
- SIM card registration
- Infrastructure sharing
- Roaming
- Tower infrastructure
- Mobile market
- Market analysis
- Mobile statistics
- Mobile infrastructure
- 5G
- 4G (LTE)
- 3G
- Other infrastructure developments
- Mobile data
- Mobile broadband
- Major mobile operators
- Orange Egypt (Mobinil, ECMS)
- Vodafone Egypt
- etisalat by e&
- Telecom Egypt
- Mobile content and applications
- m-banking
- Fixed-line broadband market
- Market analysis
- Free Internet project
- National Broadband Plan
- Public internet access locations
- Multipurpose Community Telecentres (MCTs)
- Broadband statistics
- Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks
- Fibre-to-the-Premises (FttP) networks
- Other fixed broadband services
- Broadband via satellite
- Broadband over Powerlines (BPL)
- Digital economy
- E-commerce
- Information Highway Project
- E-government
- E-health
- E-learning
- GLORIAD (Academic sector)
- Fixed network operators
- Telecom Egypt
- Services
- etisalat by e&
- Telecommunications infrastructure
- Overview of the national telecom network
- Public payphones
- Next Generation Networks (NGNs)
- Exchange points
- Data centres
- International infrastructure
- Terrestrial
- Submarine fibre
- Satellite
- Cairo Regional Internet Exchange (CRIX)
- EG-IX
- Smart infrastructure
- Appendix - Historic data
- Glossary of abbreviations
- Related reports
List of Tables
List of Charts
List of Exhibits
Companies Mentioned
- Telecom Egypt
- Menatel
- NilePhone
- Raya Telecom
- Orange Egypt (Mobinil
- ECMS
- Orascom Telecom
- Global Telecom Holding)
- Vodafone Egypt
- etisalat by e& (Etisalat Misr)
- Thuraya
- Iridium
- Inmarsat
- Alkan Communications
- EgyptSat
- MobiServe
- EgyNet
- LINKdotNET
- Nile Online
- Yalla
- Equant
- Noor
- Vodafone Data (Raya Telecom)
- Batelco
- Soficom
- Egypt Network
- Internet Egypt
- MenaNet
- MenaSat
- iSkySat
- StormSat Egypt
- PLC International
