Adel Hamed, Telecom Egypt's CEO and Managing Director, said: "The implementation of 5G ready core solution comes in line with Telecom Egypt's strategy to be ready for the future and demonstrates our strong and strategic partnership with Ericsson. We have chosen this solution from Ericsson to be ready when the time comes for 5G commercial launch in Egypt as we believe that the efficient deployment of the latest technologies enables faster rollout of new revenue-earning services to our customers." Ericsson has delivered a wide range of its market leading telecom applications including IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Unified Data Consolidation (UDC), Signaling Routing (DSC/IPSTP), a complete virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) and virtual Service-Aware Policy Controller.