Egypt's National Telecoms Regulatory Authority (NTRA) has granted its approval to two consortia to provide cable, telephone and internet services to residential compounds in Cairo's suburbs and elsewhere, Reuters has reported. One group was led by LinkDotNet and included affiliates of Orascom Telecom, and the other included Vodafone, which runs one of Egypt's three mobile operators, Amr Badawi, the head of NTRA said.