The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) called on the three mobile operators in Egypt Vodafone Egypt, Orange, and Etisalat Egypt to stop the trial runs for the fourth generation services (4G). The 4G service trials will end soon and the frequencies, which originally belonged to the 3G service, allocated to the 4G trials will return to running 3G service soon, the source added. For the official launch of 4G service in Egypt, new frequencies will be used, stressed the source. He attributed the malfunction to 4G service trials which run on 3G frequencies. The source added the company will suspend the 4G trials in accordance with the request of the NTRA.

Source: Egypt Independent January 20, 2017 11:40 UTC