Etisalat Misr, the Egyptian subsidiary of the UAE’s Etisalat, has completed a 3G network upgrade that increases the maximum theoretical speed of the network from 21Mbps to 42Mbps.
Chinese infrastructure supplier Huawei carried out the upgrade, which…
Etisalat Misr, the Egyptian subsidiary of the UAE’s Etisalat, has completed a 3G network upgrade that increases the maximum theoretical speed of the network from 21Mbps to 42Mbps.
Chinese infrastructure supplier Huawei carried out the upgrade, which covers 80% of the country’s population.
Huawei built an earlier phase of the network in the middle of 2009.
Etisalat Misr competes with larger rivals Mobinil and Vodafone Egypt. Mobinil, the country’s largest operator by customer numbers, is jointly owned by France Telecom and Egypt’s Orascom Telecom. Vodafone Egypt is jointly owned by Vodafone and Telecom Egypt – the country’s state-owned fixed-line monopoly operator.
Etisalat failed to provide an up-to-date number of customers for Etisalat Misr when it reported its first-quarter results last month.