A large and rising population presents Egypt’s government with the challenge of keeping up the current level of basic services while meeting the demands of the growth to come. In the electricity sector, that means remaining in expansion mode for decades to come. However, the growth cannot follow the path it has in the past, when Egypt used natural...
As the Arab world’s largest media market, Egypt has long been at the heart of the region’s publishing and broadcasting scene. The past few years – and certainly the past 12 months – have seen a blossoming of new newspapers and television and radio stations that have added dynamism and competition to the sector, a process that has accelerated...
The launch of Egypt’s first mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) should add new competition to the telecoms market and is likely spur further changes in the sector. Winning the licence could provide new impetus for legacy operator Telecom Egypt (TE), which is expected to be the lead bidder, while encouraging greater sharing of capital-intensive...
Educational shortcomings across Arab nations were widely discussed following the publication in 2002 of the inaugural Arab Human Development Report. Written by international and Egyptian experts under the auspices of the UN Development Programme, the report offered a scathing review of the state of education in the Arab world. Egypt was no exception...
Fast-growing, intensely competitive, open to international investment and dominated by the private sector, Egypt’s telecoms industry is one of the country’s great success stories. While mobile penetration is high, a growing population and a larger range of devices and pricing plans mean that subscriptions continue to rise. Competition is driving...
With its large market of over 80m consumers, a solid long-term growth trend and relatively low penetration at present, the fundamentals for the advertising sector are good. The large and diverse media market gives advertisers a broad range of outlets, and the emergence of new TV channels and newspapers has brought dynamism to the industry, as well...
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