ICT has been a part of Egypt‟s national development strategy for the past decade, and the Government has been developing a framework to move the country into the information age, through promoting partnerships of public, private, civil society and multilateral stakeholders. However, the reform wave has stimulated the Egyptian government to speed up the deployment of services and enhance the current broadband infrastructure. The tremendous demand for more bandwidth coupled with consumers‟ appetite for video-content, news, and multi-media services have led the NTRA to introduce a new ICT strategy for broadband: the “eMisr National Broadband Plan”. Since 2002, national initiatives allowed manufacturers to provide PCs at affordable prices and with flexible payment terms to schools and households. In 2004 the government launched a Broadband Initiative which increased the number of broadband connections ten folds within four years and brought 24 Mbps ADSL2+ access to residential households. However, despite its successes, Egypt still lags behind international standards. Mobile and Internet penetration rates are relatively low in comparison with the rest of the world. By the end of 2011, the number of ADSL subscribers in Egypt will amount to 1.8 million subscribers and the number of mobile broadband subscribers will amount to 2.5 million subscribers. Policy makers in Egypt consider broadband as the engine for development, especially after the recent political and social reform waves. This vision is in accordance with the increasing dependence of citizens' on broadband. On the other hand, challenges that face the Egyptian society on an economic level require adopting a strategy across different sectors that is mainly dependent on ICT. Many sectors of the society will require both sufficient broadband infrastructure and the appropriate applications, to implement national initiatives and projects, such as: eeducation, e-health, e-government, e-civic engagement, ICT in business, ecommerce, and e-content. eMisr is a National Broadband Plan that proposes different strategic directives to meet Egypt‟s broadband service needs. To develop eMisr, NTRA has conducted studies, consultations, workshops and meetings with relevant stakeholders. A joint study performed by NTRA and Qualcomm addressed consumers‟ affordability for broadband services in Egypt. Another study with Detecon built a model to forecast the broadband market growth and to investigate stimulation effects on the broadband market. World Bank, under a signed agreement with MCIT and NTRA, has undergone two studies; one to assess strategic options taken by international decision makers to allow for a proper broadband diffusion, and another to build a model assessing the viability of different broadband technologies and estimating the macroeconomic impact of broadband diffusion in Egypt. The key strategic objectives of the eMisr Plan aim to: 1) Recognize Egypt as a frontrunner in digital communications, 2) Increase job opportunities, 3) Stimulate economic growth nationwide and foster social cohesion, 4) Harmonize with other eMisr National Broadband Plan Executive Summary 9