Since launching commercial 4G LTE licences in late 2017, the country’s four mobile operators – Orange Egypt, Vodafone Egypt, Etisalat Misr and Telecom Egypt’s WE – have rolled out LTE services in most urban areas. They are quickly bringing the country on par with global standards through innovative partnerships and network infrastructure...
Egypt is banking on a number of key advantages to become a regional and global centre for tech start-ups. The country benefits from a young, increasingly urbanised and tech-minded population, and around 250,000 engineering and tech graduates enter the job market every year. The costs of establishing and registering a business in cities like...
Much of Morocco’s economy is made up of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which employ 80% of the workforce, but often have little capacity for investment and face challenges accessing initial financing – in particular for innovative business plans. Despite these challenges, several factors bode well for the development of the country...
The quick adoption of mobile communication services in Morocco has been supported by the deployment of 4G services across the country, allowing for the provision of high-quality services and setting the stage for the transition from a telecoms sector dominated by voice to data. Since it was first launched in the kingdom in 2015, the 4G network...
Economic growth, coupled with the liberalisation of the sector in the 1990s, has led to the expansion of Morocco’s ICT sector, which is also underpinned by high penetration levels and policies conducive to the development of related services and their incorporation into everyday business activities. “The Fourth Industrial Revolution is already...
Blockchain – the distributed-ledger technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin – appears set to transform a wide variety of industries and perhaps fundamentally change the way business is conducted around the globe. While the technology is still taking off and its potential is not fully known, many emerging markets are hoping...
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