Telecom Egypt has deployed Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme to maximise its capacity along the Mediterranean segment of Telecom Egypt’s Middle East North Africa (MENA) submarine cable system. This is set to give Telecom Egypt the highest capacity per wavelength, which the company says will reduce cost per bit and provide more spectral and power efficiency. [...]
Telecom Egypt has rolled out its 4G voice calls service with VoLTE technology in the Egyptian telecom market. The launch was possible with the collaboration of Ericsson, as well as Nokia and Huawei on other networks. This provides customers with a high quality of voice calls and allow them to make calls and use data [...]
Telecom Egypt (TE) and Etisalat Misr have inked two deals for mobile and fixed telecommunications interconnection. The deals will be mainly on how much it costs to transfer calls between fixed-line and mobile networks and also enable Etisalat Misr to use the telecommunications infrastructure of Telecom Egypt. Telecom Egypt said that the first arrangement represents an improvement of [...]
Facebook will partner with a group of telecoms operators to build Africa’s internet infrastructure. Facebook stated in a statement that it will partner with six other companies including China Mobile International, Telecom Egypt and Vodafone to construct what they are calling “2Africa.” The project will build a massive 22,990-mile-long undersea cable around Africa, which the [...]
Huawei Technology Corporation will offer new models for the use of communication, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications to Telecom Egypt. The collaboration between the two companies is the result of an agreement signed on August 8, 2019 by Adel Hamed, chief executive officer of Telecom Egypt, and Vincent Sun, president and CEO of [...]
Egyptian telco Telecom Egypt has inked a deal with Cable Network Egypt (CNE) to offer customers with IPTV services. Different packages will be provided, including content such as entertainment, sports, TV series, movies and kids’ channels, among others. The Managing Director and CEO of Telecom Egypt, Adel Hamed, declared, “I am very pleased to sign [...]
Telecom Egypt has partnered with Egyptian public bank Misr Bank to launch the Mobile Money operations of its mobile phone branch WE. The service is designed to enable customers to safely and securely send, receive and store money using a smartphone application. The mobile wallet will allow customers to deposit and withdraw cash from WE’s [...]
Through its Egypt Submarine Cable Company subsidiary (EISCC), Telecom Egypt has completed the acquisition of Middle East and North Africa Submarine Cable System (MENA SCS), a subsidiary of Orascom Investment Holding. The telecommunications operator announced it on September 17, 2018 on the Egyptian stock exchange. MENA SCS was purchased for $ 90 million. Telecom Egypt [...]