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Telephone network in Egypt & Information of Phone calls to Egypt

As Telephone calls is the preferred way of communication for most people, we present here some useful information about telephone communications to/from Egypt. This will help you connect to your friends, relatives, co-workers or anyone around the world from Egypt easily at low cost and good quality. You may use this information also to call your friends in Egypt cheaply and at good voice quality.

Egypt dialing code: +20
Cheap phone calls to Egypt
Cheap phone calls from Egypt
Egypt Mobile phone operators codes
Egyptian cities dialing codes
International dialing codes

Telecom Egypt history

The Telephone network of Egypt has developed through many years since the 19th century. 1854 witnessed the birth of Egypt's telecommunications industry with the first telegraph line connecting Cairo and Alexandria inaugurated early in 1854, forming the company that was later to become Telecom Egypt.

In 1881 The first telephone line was installed between Cairo and Alexandria.

In 1918 the Egyptian Government purchased the Eastern Telephone Company for 755,000 L.E. and created the Telephone & Telegraph Authority. Until 1996, the Arab Republic of Egypt National Telecommunications Organization (ARENTO) was the sole provider of all public telecommunications services in Egypt, and later was renamed Telecom Egypt.

Now after 150 years of establishment of Telecom Egypt, there are approximately 12 million fixed telephone line subscribers and over 30 million mobile phone subscribers (till 31 December 2008)

Egypt international dialing code: +20

If you want to save on international calls, you might find the following offer useful:

Cheap phone calls from Egypt

If you are travelling to Egypt, you should think of how to call your friends, relatives or anyone you know from Egypt at low cost. Cheap phone calls from Egypt is achievable in several ways, You can make phone calls during non-peak hours from 08:00PM-08:00AM through regular phones. During non-peak hours international phone calls are cost less than the rest of the day.

But the most cost effective way to make cheap telephone calls is to use the services of an Internet phone or VOIP providers that make you use the Internet to make cheap calls to regular telephones anywhere in the world. Some companies also provide calling cards that you can use to make phone calls by calling a specific number and entering a special code.

Cheap phone calls to Egypt

There are several way you can make cheap phone calls to Egypt or international phone calls from Egypt. To reduce voice communication cost you can sign up for an Internet calling service which you can use to call a regular phone number either from a PC or using a special kind of equipment like VOIP Phone set.

Dialing codes of Mobile phone operators

Mobile telephone operator	calling codes
Mobinil	12	17	18
Vodafone	10	16	19
Etisalat	11	14

Starting from October 6th, 2011 There has been a change of Mobile phone calling code in Egypt. If you have a mobile number in Egypt you will have to modify the contact number as follows:

Mobile telephone operator	Mobile calling codes
Mobinil	old	12	17	18	150
	new	122	127	128	120
Vodafone	old	10	16	19	151
	new	100	106	109	101
Etisalat	old	11	14		152
	new	111	114		112

List of long distance dialing codes of major cities in Egypt

City	Telephone Dialing code	City	Telephone Dialing code
Cairo & Giza	2	Damanhour	45
Alexandria	3	Damietta	57
Aswan	97	El Mahalla	43
Hurghada	653	Kafr el Sheikh	47
Ismailia	64	Mansoura	50
Luxor	952	Marsa Matrouh	46
Port Said	66	Rafah	68
Suez	62	Rosetta (Rasheed)	45
Sharm El Sheikh	693	Safaga	653
Tanta	40	6th October	2
El Arish (North Sinai)	68	10th of Ramadan	15
Asiut	882

International dialing codes

To make an international phone call dial 00 or press the "+" sign button, then the country dialing code then the phone number including city or region long distance dialing code.

Country	Dialing code	Country	Dialing code	Country	Dialing code
Algeria	213	Iceland	354	Portugal	351
Argentina	54	India	91	Qatar	974
Australia	61	Indonesia	62	Romania	40
Austria	43	Iran	98	Russia	7
Bahamas	1242	Iraq	964	Samoa	685
Bahrain	973	Ireland	353	Saudi Arabia	966
Bangladesh	880	Italy	39	\|Senegal	221
Belgium	32	Jamaica	1809	Sierra Leone	232
Bermuda	1441	Japan	81	Singapore	65
Bolivia	591	Jordan	962	Slovakia	421
Brazil	55	Kenya	254	Slovenia	386
Brunei	673	Korea, South	82	Solomon Islands	677
Bulgaria	359	Korea, North	850	South Africa	27
Canada	1	Kuwait	965	Spain	34
Chile	56	Lesotho	266	Sri Lanka	94
China	86	Luxemburg	352	Swaziland	268
Colombia	57	Macao	853	Sweden	46
Costa Rica	506	Malawi	265	Switzerland	41
Cote D'Ivoire	255	Malaysia	60	Syria	963
Cyprus	357	Malta	356	Tahiti	689
Czech Republic	42	Mauritius	230	Taiwan	886
Denmark	45	Mexico	52	Tanzania	255
Ecuador	593	Monaco	377	Thailand	66
Egypt	20	Nepal	977	Tunisia	216
El Salvador	503	Netherlands	31	Turkey	90
Fiji	679	New Caledonia	687	Uganda	256
Finland	358	New Zealand	64	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	971
France	33	Nigeria	234	United Kingdom (UK)	44
Germany	49	Norway	47	United States (USA)	1
Ghana	233	Oman	968	Venezuela	58
Gibraltar	350	Pakistan	92	Vietnam	84
Greece	30	Panama	507	Zambia	260
Guam	1671	Papua New Guinea	675	Zimbabwe	263
Guatemala	502	Paraguay	595
Haiti	509	Peru	51
Hong Kong	852	Philippines	63
Hungary	36	Poland	48

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