Egypt Phone Cards

Calling UK to Egypt  France to Egypt
Calling USA to Egypt  Ireland to Egypt

Two leading calling card companies to choose from:
1) Cloncom top phonecards consolidator offers low cost calling to Egypt from major countries.  Check for yourself.

2) 1stUSA: US calling card company. Click 1stUSA for details

 

This is what you need to know when you buy calling cards:

Connection Fee
Connection fee or first minute surcharge is charged when a call is connected. The charge varies between different service providers. If you make few long duration calls this charge is usually insignificant, but if you make frequent short duration calls you should look for a card with low or no connection fee.

Maintenance Fee
The maintenance fee is charged on weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis, after the first use.  If you intend to buy a card and use it in short time this charge is not significant, but if you intend to make few calls and keep your card for a long time you should choose a low maintenance fee card or no-maintenance fee card.

Minutes Rounding
Minutes rounding is the basic unit to record the length of the phone call. This varies between service providers and products. Cards may come with 1 second, 30 second or even 3 or 6 minute rounding. You should keep attention to phone card minutes rounding so you buy a card that fits you calling patterns.

Egypt Telecommunication*

Telephones - main lines in use:	3,971,500 (December 1998)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	380,000 (1999)
Telephone system:	general assessment: large system; underwent extensive upgrading during 1990s and is reasonably modern; Internet access and cellular service are available domestic: principal centers at Alexandria, Cairo, Al Mansurah, Ismailia, Suez, and Tanta are connected by coaxial cable and microwave radio relay international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean), 1 Arabsat, and 1 Inmarsat; 5 coaxial submarine cables; tropospheric scatter to Sudan; microwave radio relay to Israel; a participant in Medarabtel and a signatory to Project Oxygen (a global submarine fiber-optic cable system)
Radio broadcast stations:	AM 42 (plus 15 repeaters), FM 14, shortwave 3 (1999)
Television broadcast stations:	98 (September 1995)
Egypt Mobile Codes:	2010  2012
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):	50 (2000)
Internet users:	600,000 (2002)

*Egypt telecommunications data is from CIA World Factbook. 

 

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