The Commission for Plenipotentiaries of the Supreme Constitutional Court has decided, next January 12, to consider the legal dispute between Etisalat Misr and Orange Egypt Telecom (formerly Mobinil) in the lawsuit calling for the suspension of the implementation of the arbitration ruling issued by the Cairo Arbitration Center in March 2016 to compel “Telecom Egypt” “By paying half a billion pounds in favor of Orange Telecom Egypt, in exchange for interconnection fees and the use and passage of calls on other companies’ networks.”
Telecom Egypt submitted its lawsuit, No. 26 of 39 disputes, against the legal representative of Orange Egypt Telecom, the Minister of Justice in his capacity as the Chief General of the Pens of the minutes of execution and the CEO of the National Communications Regulatory Authority in his capacity, to demand a separation in the legal dispute between it and Orange. As it urgently demanded the cessation of the implementation of the arbitration award issued in the arbitration case No. 960 of 2014 issued on March 27, 2016, pending the conclusion of the subject matter of the case in question.
The lawsuit in the matter also demanded that the ruling issued by the Administrative Judicial Court be approved in both cases No. 3248 of 63 BC and 20220 of 64 BC and that the Orange company’s request to compel Telecom Egypt to pay half a billion pounds in its favor regarding the interconnection rates between the two companies .
In March 2016, the Cairo Center for Commercial Arbitration issued a ruling in favor of “Orange” to oblige Telecom Egypt to pay 285.190 million pounds, in addition to the benefits of late payment, with a total of 500 million pounds.
Telecom Egypt obtained a final and enforceable ruling in June 2016 rejecting the Orange Egypt lawsuit and Egypt Telecom’s right to implement the decisions of the national telecommunications regulatory agency that set the interconnection rates.
After there were two rulings, one of them from the Cairo Center for Commercial Arbitration in favor of Orange and compensated by more than half a billion pounds, and another from the State Council in favor of “Telecom Egypt” for its right to collect fees for connection rates, the latter resorted to the Constitutional Court to adjudicate the dispute and demand the support of the provisions of the State Council He rejected the ruling of the Cairo Center for Commercial Arbitration.
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