Vodafone, Etisalat study NTRA offer to get 4G licences

Vodafone Egypt and Etisalat Egypt said on Sunday that they study an offer by Egypt's National Telecom Regulatory Authority's (NTRA) to get the fourth-generation mobile licences.

Earlier, Egypt's telecommunications regulator set the price of a licence to provide fourth-generation mobile services at EGP 3.54 billion, half of which must be paid in dollars.

The NTRA set the first week of August as a deadline to receive responses of the mobile operators willing to get the mobile phone licenses, totally or partially.

The regulator set the cost of getting a fixed line licence at EGP 100 million and the cost of a licence to offer customers international calls at EGP 1.8 billion.

Source : MENA