Research and Markets reports that Egypt has become one of the leading Internet markets in Africa in terms of users, international bandwidth and services offered. The country is well connected by several international submarine fibre optic cables in combination with a national fibre backbone infrastructure, and the international bandwidth market has been liberalised.
The entire sector is highly competitive with more than 200 Internet and data service providers, which has led to some of the lowest prices for ADSL services on the continent and broadband packages with up to 24Mb/s delivered to residential households. 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.
Key topics covered in the report include the data market, data service operators, VSAT networks, data centres, the Internet market, Egypt’s free Internet project, 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.
