Editing Telecommunications in Egypt (section)

=== Internet ===
{{main|Internet in Egypt}}
The Internet companies market is dealt to two: infrastructure providers and service providers.
List following goes in most used.
* [[Telecom Egypt|WE / Telecom Egypt]]
* [[Orange Egypt|Orange DSL]]
* [[Vodafone Egypt]]
* [[E& Egypt|E& Egypt (Etisalat Egypt)]]

There are 8 major service provider which sell their services to smaller ISPs. The highest available speed through ADSL technologies was upgraded to 8&nbsp;Mb in download in February 2008 and then to 24&nbsp;Mb later that year.
The Egyptian ISP market is not competitive, at least in Cairo and Alexandria, with only 3 ISPs offering below-average speeds(Up to 16&nbsp;Mbit/s).

Orascom, one of the shareholders in the leading cellular operator MobiNil, is also the biggest player in the Internet service provision market and owns 75 per cent of one of Egypt's largest ISP, LINKdotNET. The tie-up with the mobile operator is significant in that WAP services were introduced in May for a trial period, making Egypt one of the first countries in Africa to have introduced WAP.

NileOnline and Egynet has been recently sold to Etisalat, increasing Etisalat access into the broadband market. with this acquisition all class I tier ISPs mentioned above are owned by the major telecommunication companies operating in the country.

Raya is owned by Vodafone Egypt, Nileonline and Egynet are now owned by Etisalat, TEdata is owned and operated by the oldest telecom company in the region telecom Egypt and link.net is owned by Orascom telecom.