An extremely interesting and very relevant article, RPM. This extract is noteworthy (in fact, the whole article is), and should be sent to Roy Padayachee, as well as whoever the current telecoms regulator is in his office, and his representative to the ATU:
"That Egypt is the star in the Arab World in having the lowest ADSL cost is no surprise. The major Internet Service Providers in the country are allowed to negotiate their own international bandwidth agreements and not be tied to getting the bandwidth from the incumbent fixed operator (Telecom Egypt)." Mr. Jawad Abbassi, Arab Advisors Group Founder and President commented. "Moreover, these ISPs are allowed to collocate at Telecom Egypt’s exchanges and use Telecom Egypt unbundled copper wires at reasonable rates. They, therefore, own their infrastructure for the most part. Freed from monopoly pricing, and with government encouragement to spread ADSL service in the country, Egyptian operators are giving the best ADSL value in the region. Anyone that doubts the effect of infrastructure-based competition (and local loop unbundling) on lowering ADSL rates should look no farther than Egypt !" Mr. Abbassi added.
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"That Egypt is the star in the Arab World in having the lowest ADSL cost is no surprise. The major Internet Service Providers in the country are allowed to negotiate their own international bandwidth agreements and not be tied to getting the bandwidth from the incumbent fixed operator (Telecom Egypt)." Mr. Jawad Abbassi, Arab Advisors Group Founder and President commented. "Moreover, these ISPs are allowed to collocate at Telecom Egypt’s exchanges and use Telecom Egypt unbundled copper wires at reasonable rates. They, therefore, own their infrastructure for the most part. Freed from monopoly pricing, and with government encouragement to spread ADSL service in the country, Egyptian operators are giving the best ADSL value in the region. Anyone that doubts the effect of infrastructure-based competition (and local loop unbundling) on lowering ADSL rates should look no farther than Egypt !" Mr. Abbassi added.
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