This plan was not implemented, because only one company presented a discounted offer to the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA), namely TE Data, owned by Telecom Egypt. Private Internet companies Vodafone Data, LINKdotNET, Etisalat Data, and Noor Data Network, announced they would not present a new discounted price plan. This is due to the high cost of the service provided, caused by the high cost of infrastructure rental from Telecom Egypt. As a result, Negm requested that Telecom Egypt conduct a study on decreasing the infrastructure's rental price for private Internet companies. Due to this step, some members of the executive management accused him of wasting public funds. Essam said that Vodafone Egypt aims to increase the number of its outsourcing employees, from 3, 500 employees to 7,000 employees, over the next year.