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Egypt's internet penetration rate grew from less than one percent in 2000, to 5% in 2004, 24% in 2009, [5] 54.6% in 2014, and 71.9% in 2022. [6] Egypt has continued to grow internet penetration by investing in the information and communications technology sector, spending E£9.8 billion in 2008 which grew to E£13.5 billion in 2011.
Below is a sortable list of countries by number of Internet users as of 2024. Internet users are defined as persons who accessed the Internet in the last 12 months from any device, including mobile phones. [Note 1] Percentage is the percentage of a country's population that are Internet users. Estimates are derived either from household surveys ...
Raya is owned by Vodafone Egypt, Nileonline and Egynet are now owned by Etisalat, TEdata is owned and operated by the oldest telecom company in the region telecom Egypt and link.net is owned by Orascom telecom. On January 27, 2011, almost all internet connectivity to Egypt was shut off by the Egyptian government. [4]
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The Internet in Africa is limited by a lower penetration rate when compared to the rest of the world. Measurable parameters such as the number of ISP subscriptions, overall number of hosts, IXP-traffic, and overall available bandwidth are indicators that Africa is far behind the "digital divide".
Virtually all of Egypt's Internet addresses were unreachable, worldwide. [73] In response, Egyptians used smartphones as modems, and even land lines with dial-up modems to make international calls to access the internet, fax machines in universities and embassies, and ham radio to circumvent the restrictions.
The Carna Botnet was a botnet of 420,000 devices created by hackers to measure the extent of the Internet in what the creators called the "Internet Census of 2012". [ 24 ] [ 25 ] World map of 24-hour relative average utilization of IPv4 addresses observed using ICMP ping requests as part of the Internet Census of 2012 (Carna Botnet), June ...
Egypt: The Internet in Egypt was shut down by the government, whereby approximately 93% [41] of networks were without access in 2011 in an attempt to stop mobilization for anti-government protests. [42] ISPs: government censorship Egypt: Full 2012 2012 Syrian internet outage Syria