Summary: Makkah - Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) Governor Abdulrahman Al Jaafari visited Makkah - Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) Governor Abdulrahman Al Jaafari visited Mobily's facilities along with an entourage of officials, as part of the commission's overall inspection tour of Hajj preparations by telecom operator for the Hajj season.
CAIRO: Minister of Communications and Information Technology Tarek Kamel and Minister of Education Youssry El-Gamal are working together on a plan to develop secondary schools around the country over the next two years.
Tarek Kamel, Egypt's minister of communications and information technology, unveiled the proposals, which will see Egypt offer two concessions allowing the sale of fixed line voice, high speed broadband and pay-TV services in upscale suburbs outside the capital which contain between 50 and 5,000 housing units; provision of these services outside these areas will remain restricted.
An Electronics, Communications and Information Technology [ECIT] delegation teamed up with Invest NI for meetings in Washington and Boston with both US funding bodies and technology corporations.
Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ralph Maraj said the new Government recognized the future growth and prosperity of the country depended on the existence of a modernized and efficient communications sector, and "high on our agenda will be the establishment of the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad & Tobago, through the passage of appropriate legislation," he said.
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) said they were targeting 250 million telephone subscribers by end-2007 and 500 million by 2010.
