Vodafone Egypt to invest $1.3billion over 3 years

Vodafone Egypt, majority owned by British mobile operator Vodafone, will finance the plan from existing funds, Ahmed Essam told a news conference in Cairo late on Sunday.

Vodafone Egypt, which is also 45 per cent owned by fixed-line telecoms firm Telecom Egypt, is the leading communications player by customer numbers in the country of 86 million.

Egypt is finalising the details of a long-awaited unified licence which will allow firms to offer both mobile and landline telecommunications.

To gain access to Telecom Egypt’s fixed line network is expected to cost E£100 million.

Vodafone Egypt is still studying the possibility of offering landline services and has not reached a decision, Essam said.