Two Egyptian Ministries, NUCA to Choose 5 New Tech-Areas

Eng. Atef Helmy, Egyptian Telecom Minister revealed that the Ministry is currently working to coordinate with the Housing Ministry and the New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA) in order to choose the locations of the technological areas which the Ministry is aiming to launch in the beginning of this year.

Helmy has quoted Amwal Al Ghad that the delay of launching is due to the Ministry’s seeking to select the best places in the announced governorates, stressing that the Ministry is conducting repeated visits for implementing the new projects.

Housing approved to allocate five areas across various governorates and to grant these areas to Telecom Ministry in order to use in launching and operating 5 technological areas so as to provide call center and outsourcing services in Alexandria, Beni Suef, Assiut, Sohag and Aswan Borg El Arab with EGP25 billion expected investments.