Phones
Cairo's telephone system has undergone major restructuring in recent years, with new exchange numbers and/or extra digits being introduced. A few older places may still have six-digit numbers, but most are now seven digits. International calls can now be made using phonecards at Menatel and Nile kiosks, or the orange direct-dial phones installed at Cairo's main telephone and telegraph offices (open 24hr) and other locations. There are four main offices: at 8 Sharia Adly; alongside the Windsor Hotel on Alfi Bey; on Sharia Ramses, opposite Sharia Tawfiqia; and 13 Midan Tahrir (the smallest). There are others further afield, sometimes worth trying if you want to avoid queuing; for example, the one on Sharia Maglis al-Shad, by the National Assembly (ten minutes south of Midan Tahrir). However, it remains slightly cheaper to make calls at a telephone office in the old way rather than the phonecard kiosks or hotel. Calls are booked and paid for in advance, and can either be taken in a booth or directed to an outside number such as a hotel. Select locations in Cairo also boast special phones for direct dialling to a specific country: USA Direct phones at American Express on Sharia Qasr el-Nil, and in the Marriott, Ramses Hilton, Nile Hilton and Semiramis hotels; and BT Direct phones in the British Airways office on Midan Tahrir. These are the only phones in Egypt that allow credit card and collect calls . You can also make calls over the Internet using the net2phone and MediaRing systems - so far only available at the Berlin Hotel, which charges GBPE3 a minute to anywhere in the world.
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