Al-Ahram Weekly Online
7 - 13 February 2002
Issue No.572
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Smooth sailing in troubled waters
The clash of civilisations may be upon us, writes Mukul Devichand, but one Cairo-based Web site is opening up a profitable chink of light in our suspicious world

The strides ahead
Free Internet, the CIT Ministry and Telecom Egypt were the stars of this year's Cairo Telecomp exhibition. Amira Howeidy went along

So what is the catch?
There really is not any such thing as a free lunch -- or, it seems, a free Internet connection. Yasmine El-Rashidi investigates the details of getting online for free and explains why local ISPs have little to worry about

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