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