It has a teledensity of 6.12 which is slightly higher than the regional average but lower than Tunisia and Libya. Revenue per line is also much lower than regional and African averages. A range of services is on offer and these include paging, cellular, voice mail, ISDN, leased lines, X.25 and private VSAT networking. The government has announced plans to partially privatise Telecom Egypt and is opening up other services to private investment and competition. Government divested itself of ownership of Telecom Egypt's cellular operation and issued two cellular licences in 1998.
Major projects aimed at doubling the number of access lines are underway.
1,275,000 Teledensity 6. Recently Telecom Egypt has undertaken significant development of the country's telecommunication infrastructure with support from central government and development assistance. Equity in the new company will be offered for sale. A portion will be offered to an investor and shares will also be offered to the general public although the sizes of these portions have not yet been announced. For international communications, Egypt currently uses a combination of microwave, satellite, and submarine fibre optic links.