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Phone Lines, Internet & Communications

Phone Lines

There is a monopoly run on the Landlines in the country by Telecom Egypt, controlled by the government, however, a new company is also being set up to counter this. There are three companies that offer Mobile phone contracts with many of these contracts including 3G and 3.75G coverage.

Internet

There are eight major service providers which sell services to over 220 smaller ISP groups with the highest connection speed available as 24MB ADSL. Wireless connectivity is also being set up to try and establish a widespread information network across the country. Although the connectivity is incredibly good, it should be noted that the Egyptian Government had briefly shut off the connection in January 2011 and is capable of subsequently pushing further censorship.

Communications

Egyptian TV has two main channels, three satellite channels and six regional channels with the first main channel being in Arabic and the second one being in foreign languages, prevalently English and French.

Radio is nearly fully government controlled and uses 44 short-wave frequencies, 18 medium-wave stations and four FM stations, there are over seven regional stations which broadcast in 33 different languages.