Connectivity Providers Database

Date Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 4:20 AM From: "Hossam El-Ashkar" <hashkar@idsc.net.eg> To: <mlizarza@darkwing.uoregon.edu> Cc: Manal Ismail <mismail@idsc.net.eg> Subject: FWD: RE: Egypt and the state of the Internet >1) Could you please provide a brief technical description of the Egypt's >external connectivity to the Internet - including upstream provider(s), >international bandwidth of the link(s), etc. ? ISP in EG Link Type POP location(s) =========== =========== =============== EgyNet Fiber Cairo Nile Online Fiber Cairo TE-Data Fiber Cairo Link Dot Net Fiber Cairo Noor Fiber Cairo The collective Bandwidth for those companies is 5 T3s + 2 STM1= 535Mbps. The upstream providers are Flag Telecom, Teleglobe, and UUNET. >2) Please also list the URLs for each ISP www.egynet.com.eg www.nile-online.com www.link.net www.noor.net www.gega.net representing TE-DATA >3)What do you see as the prospects for Internet growth in Egypt; >what would help it, and what are currently the major obstacles? The major obstacle is the spreading of PCs. The Ministry is currently doing a project for offering economic PCs with low cost through private sector companies. Also, arabic content on the Internet is not very widespread. Promoting arabic content would help very much in that issue. Hossam El-Ashkar <hashkar@idsc.net.eg>