The Socio-Cultural Environment in Egypt
Technological Impacts in Egypt
Egypt’s large telecommunications market is supported by a population of approximately 103 million and benefits from effective competition in most sectors.
- A liberal regulatory regime allows for a unified license that allows operators to offer both fixed and mobile services.
- In recent years, the government has launched a series of digital transition projects aimed at increasing average broadband speeds, extending fiber broadband to approximately 60% of the population, developing in-house satellite programs, and driving a knowledge-based economy through increased adoption. Developed. information and communications;
- The new administrative capital under construction is just one of more than a dozen smart city projects that will stimulate investment in 5G and fiber broadband, as well as the deployment of IoT and AI solutions. The country aims to become a major ICT hub in North Africa and the Middle East region.
- Egypt has the 18th-highest number of telephone fixed line subscriptions worldwide with 9,858,331 total subscriptions (2020). With 95,357,427 total subscribers, mobile cellular ranks 18th internationally (2019).
- The creation of a special license for foreign investments in three particular industries was announced by the Egyptian government on May 15, 2022. In an effort to draw in foreign capital, the prime minister has given the so-called “golden license” to a number of projects in the infrastructure, green hydrogen, electric vehicle, and renewable energy sectors.
- The Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt was one of the largest and most renowned libraries in antiquity (founded around 295 B.C., it may have continued to exist in some form into the 5th century A.D.). In an effort to revive the great center of learning and communication, the Egyptian government opened the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, an Egyptian National Library, on the site of the original Great Library in 2002.
- 72% of the population used the internet in 2020, the third highest in Africa and 12th in the world.
- Egypt’s innovations index is 25.1 points higher than the average for Africa (22.63), placing it eighth in Africa and 93rd internationally (2021).
- Egypt’s IT exports were 2.95% of its overall exports in 2020, ranking first in Africa and 34th globally.
- Egypt ranked 11th in Africa and 93rd internationally for high tech exports (as a percentage of manufactured exports, in 2020).
