Egypt : Just Starting Workshop on Access to Broadband “Universal Service Opportunities and Challenges” Sharm ElSheikh - Egypt Ahmed Abd-El Aziz NTRA- Egypt

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Agenda key w ord Current situation Increase in Telecom service market Objective Targeted areas Minimum Service set Data collection & statistics generation Universal service phases Broadband strategy

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Key word Teledensity The number of total working telephones per hundred persons in the population. Teleaccessability The number of residential lines per 100 households. Universal Access Providing convenient and affordable access to communications (Voice & Data) through public facilities ( Pay phones, telecentres)

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Key word (contd.) Universal Service Long-term objective of making communications facilities available to every member of the society. Universal Service Fund ( USF) A public fund established to support communications development goals.

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Current Situation Area Around one million square km. of these, only around 55 thousands square km (i.e. 5.5%) are populated concentration at the center and south of the Delta. 26 Governorates + Luxor 200 Centers 4522 Villages.

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Current status (contd.) Population : The Egyptian population was estimated at approximately 68.3 million. Population Growth Rate: 2.063% Avg. No. of Families: 14.5 Millions. Age structure: 0-14 years: 33.96% years: 62.18% 65 years and over: 3.86%

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Basic telephone service : Egypt’s Teledensity: 13.6% * Egypt’s Teleaccessibility : 64.1%* * Ratios have been calculated on simple average basis for all governorates Ratio of urban subscribers : 76 % Ratio of rural subscribers : Current status (contd.)

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Current Situation (Contd.) Fixed Lines: 9.5 M Cities Sub.:7.3 M (76%): Villages Sub.:2.2 M (24%) Waiting List: 66 K Source: TE’s Report Jan 2005

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Mobile Payphone ا 8.0 M Subscribers 52.7 K Active Booths المصدر :شركتي المحمول و الشركة المصرية للإتصالات يناير 2005 Current Situation – Contd.

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Teledensity for Egyptian Governorates Average 13.6% Current Situation – Contd.

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Methodology of Implementation.

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Methodology of Implementation.

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11.1 million 8.5 million million No. of subscribers

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt No. of subscribers, million The number of subscribers increased more than eight folds since October 1999

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt International internet traffic increased from 20 Mb/s to 900 Mb/s in 2 years No. of Internet Users Million

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt US Objectives Equal access for rural users to quality telecomm. services that are comparable in price and scope. Promote national political, economic and cultural support. To encourage more balanced distribution of the population.

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Targeted areas 1.Expansion of services to remote or high cost areas and low income subscriber groups, where it is currently uneconomic to provide. 2.Expansion of new access services, rather than support of existing services. 3.Priority on public access services, rather than private household access. 4. social schemes

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Identify the Unserved areas & groups Survey is needed to determine the localities is not met with min. service set Survey devolved by local authorities, telecom operators and general buplic Survey shuold incloude information on rural and unserved low income urban areas Survey on the all main roads current state.

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt What is the Public Basic Service? Transmitting or receiving calls supporting voice, data and fax through phones or public phones Availability of Assigning number to subscriber Providing Directory Service Providing Emergency Service Availability of Customer Complain System Selective Calls Barring Quality of Service Minimum services set

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt US Program Starting point Technical studies : data collection and classification RFP Tender for every pre selected area Supervision on the projects Periodically evaluation

Data collection & comparable statistics generation

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Our partners in data collection TE : present & plan projected on the Administrative divisions Telecom operators IDSC Governorate information center Ministry of public Development DB (Survey)

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Required data of every governorates Administrative divisions Population Electricity Communication services Transmission networks topology Digital maps

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Technical studies : data collection and classification process Tariff schemes relation to group average income Interconnection Country GDP Awareness Urbanization Literacy rate Human Development Index Analysis Analysis

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Methodology of implementation Phase One: USO & Commitments Coverage & Roll out USO No Yes Satisfy NTRA ’s NEO Telecom Egypt Mobile Operators Pay Phones Till 12/2005 No Licenses fees Current position Approved coverage plan NEO : Network Expansion Obligations Define obligations

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Universal Service Phases

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Phase 1: Unserved areas – Less Income Phase 2: Teledensity to 20% Phase 3: Reduce the Digital-divide Phase 4: Teleaccessibility Universal Service Phases

Broadband strategy

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Egypt master plan The strategic focus of the Ministry will be on increasing the number of users of ICT services as follows by the end of 2007 Overall Fixed penetration to around 18 % (12.5 million sub.) Overall Mobile penetration to around 13 % (10 million sub.) Overall Internet penetration to around 10 % (7.5 million users) Overall PC penetration to around 6 % (4 million PC’s) Overall Broadband penetration to around 2 % (1.5 million sub.) Overall number of IT clubs 1500

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt The Broadband Roadmap Usage of the broadband : As the use of multimedia and online applications is growing, the need for high-speed broadband access is becoming as vital as traditional telecommunication basic infrastructure The broadband solution for rural area : technologies such as broadband wireless access are still more cost effective in some cases.

National Telecom Regulatory Authority - Egypt Country NamePop (2003) GDP per cap (US$) (2003) GDP (US$) (2003) Main lines per 100 people (2003) Cell phone subs per 100 people (2003) Internet users per 100 people (2003) Egypt691,19582, France6029,1331,747, Germany8328,9242,400, India1, , Japan12833,8004,326, Norway544,316221, South Africa463,476159, Sweden933,422300, United Kingdom5830,9461,794, United States29237,26610,881,

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