Broad opportunities

Broadband is now satisfying Egypt’s need to stay connected to the world at high speed | Business Today Egypt

Broadband is slowly becoming the on line wave to the future, opening up new routes for many industries to benefit from the World Wide Web.

A lesson learned from the 1990s internet saga in Egypt is, arguably, only internet service providers (ISPs) survive. By Y2K, the vast majority of the dot-coms and content-intensive internet startups were readily defunct. The very few startups that survived could do so only when they converted their identities to become largely ISPs, or at least when partnered with ISPs, especially with the launch of the free internet initiative earlier in 2002. 

Case in point, one of the first Egyptian portals, Masrawy.com.