Egypt mobile phone subscriptions rise by 27%

According to official figures, the number of mobile phone subscriptions in Egypt rose 27.7% to 70.66 million as of last December,

from a year earlier, Reuters has reported.

In December 2009, the total number of subscribers of Egypts three mobile operators, Etisalat Egypt, MobiNil and Vodafone Egypt, stood at 55.352 million.