{"id":990679,"date":"2026-02-09T08:14:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990679"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:54:48","slug":"egypt-signs-record-3-5-billion-spectrum-deal-with-mobile-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/09\/egypt-signs-record-3-5-billion-spectrum-deal-with-mobile-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt signs record $3.5 billion spectrum deal with mobile operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO: Egypt has signed a record $3.5 billion agreement to \u2060allocate 410 megahertz of new spectrum to its four mobile operators, the cabinet said in \u200ca \u200cstatement on Saturday, describing it as the largest \u200cspectrum deal in the country&#8217;s telecommunications history. <\/p>\n<p>The operators &#8211; state-controlled Telecom Egypt, Vodafone Egypt, Orange Egypt and E&amp; Egypt &#8211; are expected to pay the government $3.5 billion under the deal. <\/p>\n<p>The cabinet \u200csaid \u200dthe newly allocated spectrum matches \u200dthe total frequency assigned to mobile operators since \u200cmobile services were first introduced in Egypt 30 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO: Egypt has signed a record $3.5 billion agreement to \u2060allocate 410 megahertz of new spectrum to its four mobile operators, the cabinet said in \u200ca \u200cstatement on Saturday, describing it as the largest \u200cspectrum deal in the country&#8217;s telecommunications history. The operators &#8211; state-controlled Telecom Egypt, Vodafone Egypt, Orange Egypt and E&amp; Egypt &#8211; are expected to pay the government $3.5 billion under the deal. The cabinet \u200csaid \u200dthe newly allocated spectrum matches \u200dthe total frequency assigned to mobile operators since \u200cmobile services were first introduced in Egypt 30 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}