Telecom Egypt and the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology awarded a five year contract valued at up to US$60 million to Nortel Networks for expansion and modernization of Egypt's national telecommunications infrastructure. Key elements of this network expansion are expected to include Nortel Networks Univity CDMA2000 1X Wireless Data Network solutions, Nortel Networks Succession Communication Server 2000 superclass softswitches, and Nortel Networks DMS circuit switches. The company said the Succession Communication Server 2000 superclass softswitches and DMS-100 local switching systems will enable Telecom Egypt to migrate to voice over packet technology at its own pace.
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- As of October 2001, Telecom Egypt was serving 8.6 million telephone access lines. The country had a teledensity of 10.2%. http://www.telecomegypt.com.eg/english/
