5G frequencies to be assigned by 2020: minister

CAIRO - 26 November 2018: Acting Executive President of the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) Mustafa Abdel Wahed on Sunday predicted that the 5G frequencies would be assigned to telecom operators in Egypt by the beginning of 2020.

NTRA is currently studying economic and technical aspects of the new technology in accordance with the requirements and international standards, Abdel Wahed told a session on "telecom operators' readiness to apply the 5G technology" within the Cairo International Exhibition and Conference on Information and Telecommunication Technology (Cairo ICT 2018).

For his part, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat said the information structure is available to all citizens without discrimination, as well as to all state sectors to facilitate services.