Egypt has become of the leading Internet markets in Africa in terms of users, international bandwidth and services offered.
The country is connected by several international submarine fibre optic cables together with a national fibre backbone infrastructure.
The sector is very competitive with more then 200 internet and service providers, this has led to low prices for ADSL services and Broadband packages delivered to residential household. VoIP Internet telephony has been liberalised, and several companies are rolling out Next Generation Networks (NGN) to provide converged IP-based voice and data services.
The key topics covered in the report include the data market, data service operators, Affordable Personal Computer (APC) programmes, e-schools, Internet gateways, the Cairo Regional Internet Exchange (CRIX), Internet access locations, Multipurpose Community Telecentres (MCTs), Egypt’s ISP market, broadband in Egypt, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), wireless broadband, WiFi, WiMAX, CDMA2000 1x EV-DO, broadband via satellite, broadband over Powerlines (BPL), convergence, VoIP telephony, IPTV and e-commerce and e-government initiatives
By IT News staff reporter
