Tag: Egypt Post

ENPO develops postal investments (Egypt)

Posted by | Jun 29, 2008 | |

As a means to expand the postal infrastructure in Egypt, the Egyptian National Post Organization (ENPO) announced the establishment of the first integrated pan-Arab post network under the auspices of the Arab Telecommunications and Information Council of Ministers.

The postal network is expected to act as an umbrella under which Arab postal organizations cooperate to develop the sector and contribute to on-going socioeconomic development among the member states in the network.

Another purpose is to establish an Arab common market capable of competing in global markets and setting socio-economic development strategies in the member countries, he added.

The network project makes use of the geographical location in offering logistical solutions and putting into action the agreements signed among member Arab countries.

The project will also help put future strategies to refresh mail and financial services, while making use of e-commerce applications and state-of-the-art technologies.

The mechanisms of carrying out the project depend on a number of tracks that include organizing a periodic international forum to demonstrate the Arab experiences in the postal sector. This step also encompasses holding bilateral and multilateral meetings besides organizing any required actual and virtual workshops where experiences and views can be exchanged.

A database for the Arab post sector will also be designed to help empower the decision-making process and formulate the strategic guidelines of the network and its member countries.

Online forums will also be developed to facilitate information exchange among the member countries and pave the way for the private sector and civil organizations to take part in the activities of the post sector.

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Middle Eastern postal market poised for growth

Posted by | Apr 2, 2008 | |

Postal operations in the Middle East have the potential to generate significant value, but they have limited time before regulatory liberalization and the spread of Internet commerce start to erode their competitive position, according to a new white paper.

• Middle Eastern postal companies today are like their European counterparts during the 1990s in facing abundant growth opportunities.

• The sector has begun to liberalize, slowly opening opportunities for new entrants.

• Immigrants in GCC countries are demanding value-added services.

• Low computer and Internet usage in GCC countries gives postal companies an additional advantage.

Middle Eastern postal companies can take advantage of several trends that Oliver Wyman expects to feed expansion and cross-selling opportunities in the region:

• Large existing post office networks and strong, recognized brands, such as UAE Post

• Large local populations and growing immigrant populations, which require basic services usually available at the local post office

• Regulated markets, which allow Middle Eastern postal companies to set barriers to entry much higher for new entrants as deregulation occurs. Bahrain already has a fully liberalized postal market and Egypt has committed to liberalization by 2009.

• Low penetration of PCs and the Internet at present, heavy reliance on cash transactions, and skepticism about online security

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Poste Italiane signs Technology Innovation Partnership with Egypt Post

Posted by | Mar 17, 2008 | |

Poste Italiane and Egypt Post have signed an agreement for the technological development and improvement of Egypt’s postal service. Poste Italiane has chosen Finmeccanica to be its partner in this initiative of international importance. Finmeccanica is a leading Italian group at a global level in the production of technological systems and platforms applied to a variety of production sectors.

The international agreement signed by Poste Italiane with Egypt’s postal service provider is aimed at promoting an overall improvement in the quality of mailing, and increasing the system’s innovation, including through the introduction of value added services.

The partnership between Poste Italiane and Egypt will take the form of regular bilateral consulting sessions and joint technical working groups which will allow for the sharing of technical information and the diffusion in Egypt of more advanced solutions which can be implemented within the postal sector.

Poste Italiane will make available its knowledge and experience with regard to updating and improving postal mechanisation systems. With the aim of introducing innovative technologies into Egypt and providing technical support for the optimisation of logistic processes.

The know how of Poste Italiane and Finmeccanica will make it possible to offer Egypt Post solutions to improve the organisation of its postal service, automation and distribution of correspondence and deliveries, security systems, hybrid mail, applications for the peripheral network of Egyptian post offices, innovation in the ICT sector and staff training.

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Technology: Ring tones seek to rival Dubai

Posted by | Dec 10, 2007 | |

Older residents of Cairo remember the days of the party or shared line. Ring, ring. Both parties to the line – there were at least two – would race to the phone. If you got there second, the next door flat with whom the telephone was shared would ting the receiver to alert you to the fact that the call was for you.

And then there were international phone lines. Or rather there were not. Waiting lists ran into years, and the lucky recipient would have to leave a large deposit.

This persisted through the 1990s. And then came the GSM revolution.

Ten years on, mobile penetration rates by three mobile operators stand at 28m or about 35 per cent of the population, according to the ministry of communications and information technology. Other estimates put the penetration rate at up to 38 per cent.

The cheapest sim card can be bought for EGBP25 (USD5). ADSL line rental starts at EGBP45 a month. There are 400,000 DSL subscribers and 11.5m fixed-line users – up from 10.7m last year, according to ministry numbers.

Last year Etisalat of the United Arab Emirates paid USD2.9bn for a 15-year GSM and 3G licence. At the time the price was considered to be full.

But Etisalat in Egypt already has around 3m subscribers in nine months of operation. Etisalat owns 66 per cent of the subsidiary.

The remaining shares are held by a consortium including Egypt Post, National Bank of Egypt and Commercial International Bank, a local institution.

Observers are waiting for the granting of a second fixed-line licence next year.

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Saudi Post Signs Deals on Electronic Services

Posted by | Nov 16, 2007 | |

The Saudi Postal Incorporation signed two memoranda of understanding on postal money services with Egyptian and Yemeni counterparts in the two-day 1st International Postal Information Technology Conference that ended yesterday. More than 400 companies from 140 countries took part in the international conference.

The first memorandum was signed between Mohammed Saleh Benten, president of the Saudi Postal Incorporation and his Yemeni counterpart Mohammed Ali Marghani on providing postal money services, followed by another memorandum signed between Benten and his Egyptian counterpart Alaa Fahmi for the same facility.

Saudi Postal president also signed another memorandum to establish an electronic market with a number of Saudi companies.

More importantly, postal companies should increase their investment in technology in order to be able to compete with banks in providing financial services to their customers, saying that financial posts are no more calling themselves as postal companies but rather as postal banks.

Saudi Postal recently released project “Waseel” (which translates reached), Benten said, features an address system that can be read electronically whatever the language or origin of the sender, to which Dayan quipped, “if we cant reach the address we cant deliver.”

Benten added that a number of countries have requested to be granted the rights to implement the Saudi-owned technology.

He said that the Saudi Postal service is currently cooperating with the other GCC countries to implement “Waseel” Project.

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