Submitted by basem — Fri, 11/21/2008 - 03:19
CAIRO, Egypt, Nov 18, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The economics of outsourcing are changing in America and Europe. High employee turnover, eroding profit margins and unreliable communications have led companies that traditionally rely on India and other countries for offshore information technology (IT) services to start looking for something beyond.
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Egyptian mobile phone subscribers top 51 million
CAIRO, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Egyptian mobile phone subscriber growth continued unabated in August, with 1.4 million new accounts added, to bring the total number to 51.477 million, a government website said on Monday.
Egypt is the Arab world's most populous country, with some 77 million inhabitants. Analysts and executives see room for growth up to some 65 million accounts, or 85 percent of the population, although estimates assume 20 to 25 percent of the market involves second phone.
Wipro may outsource work to Egypt
India, the offshoring capital of the world, is now outsourcing software and back-office projects to Egypt as vendors like Wipro plan to send more domestic work to the most populous Arab country to leverage lower costs and availability of skilled professionals.
Wipro, which counts Bharti Airtel, Unitech Wireless and Dena Bank among its top customers, said with 10-15 % lower costs than India, and availability of required technical skills across different programming languages including Windows and Unix, Egypt is emerging as an attractive location for offshoring.
“We believe that 20% of our work can be offshored to Egypt,” said Anand Sankaran, senior VP and business head, India and Middle East Business, Wipro. “We are offshoring jobs from Middle East and India to Egypt.” Egypt’s attractive subsidies for creating local employment which includes incentives like waiver on training costs and newrecruit salaries is making it compelling for companies like Wipro to seriously consider sending more work to the country.
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IBM builds state-of-the-art data centre for Telecom Egypt
Science Centric | 19 March 2009
IBM and Telecom Egypt announced the construction of an innovative, state-of-the-art data centre for Telecom Egypt that includes the world's most sophisticated energy-efficient 'green' technologies.
Telecom Egypt (TE) is the leading telecommunications provider in Egypt, and the largest provider of fixed-line services in the Middle East with more than 10.4 million customers. Striving to improve customer satisfaction as a key long term success factor, TE chose IBM in 2007 to design and build the most sophisticated and energy-efficient data centre in Egypt. Construction was recently completed. IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) site and facilities division designed the highly resilient data centre environment that will be fully equipped to protect TE's valuable information technology (IT) investments, taking into consideration all factors required for the project such as cabling systems, flooring trenches, switching systems, electromechanical systems and data centre layout.
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Apple turns off GPS for Egyptian market
Apple Company been requested to by The Egyptian government turn off the Global Positioning System (GPS) in its iPhone 3G because in that country it’s the military’s “prerogative”.
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Egypt lifts GPS ban
Egypt announced this week that it would allow the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) devices, ending a ban that had meant that certain mobile phones could not be sold in the country. The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) lifted the ban, meaning that now only two countries on earth, Syria and North Korea, still forbid the use of GPS.
In addition to allowing Egyptians greater access to GPS technologies and the products (phones and cars) that provide them, the ruling is expected to spur business in the telecom and auto sectors. Egyptian traders will now be permitted to import cars and mobile phones that have the technology, and manufacturers in the country will be allowed to make and export those products too.
The NTRA, however, will continue to monitor and control manufacturing of the devices. Phones and computers with GPS may only be exported “provided that NTRA authorizes the type of machines based on its criteria and procedures,” the NTRA said in a statement on its website Saturday. Despite lifting the ban on GPS, the NTRA said that the use of a similar technology, Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) systems, will only be permitted with its expressed consent.
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INTEL, Egypt sign deal for motherboard plant
CAIRO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Intel Corp, the world's biggest chipmaker, said on Monday that an Egyptian company will assemble Intel motherboards in the Arab country and export them across Africa.
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Internet penetration a major opportunity for Egypt’s marketeers
By Alex Dziadosz
Daily News Egypt - November 25, 2008
Online marketing in Egypt is still primitive, most of the technology speakers agreed. But internet penetration has grown by 1,300 percent here in the past eight years, suggesting a major opportunity, said Google Egypt’s Country Manager Wael Fakharany.
According to state statistics presented at the conference, the internet reached 15.59 percent of Egyptians in September, totaling to more than 12 million users. Most Egyptians browse the internet for entertainment, though religious information is also a popular draw, the figures said. Making financial transactions was the least common reason for Egyptians to go online.
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