$ 487mn ( EGP £ 8.6bn ) Approximate amount Orange Egypt invested in its 4G platform
35mn Approximate number of Orange Egypt customers
1998 Year Orange Egypt was founded
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$ 487mn ( EGP £ 8.6bn ) Approximate amount Orange Egypt invested in its 4G platform
35mn Approximate number of Orange Egypt customers
1998 Year Orange Egypt was founded
I believe this is an important trend that we need to explore .”
Today , the Egyptian company is virtualizing its network functions by introducing a Telco cloud infrastructure that will support Network functions virtualization across all Networks and service platforms .
It ’ s a transformation which Siblini says will have a huge impact on the way the company ’ s operates .
“ Whatever we do we always think about the future ,” he says . “ The virtualisation of the network is actually important for many reasons . It ’ s going to have a direct impact on our costs both from a capex and opex perspective and it will also help us see a massive improvement in terms of our time to market for introducing new products and services in addition to improving the network quality and perception . On the other hand , the introduction of softwaredefined networking ( SDN ) and network function virtualisation ( NFV ) technologies is also a good step towards preparing the network for 5G technology .”
5G is set to be a game-changer for
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