By ; Basel Khaked – Nahla Makled

Orange Egypt, the leading provider of integrated telecommunications services, has announced an exclusive partnership with Deezer, the global audio streaming service. For the first time, Orange customers in Egypt will have the opportunity to sign up for Deezer Premium with unlimited access to music and podcasts. The companies have also teamed up to offer new users 1 month of Deezer Premium for free.

With the new service Orange customers can easily subscribe and pay for Deezer using their own mobile phone packages of either prepaid or post-paid lines. Once subscribed, customers can enjoy the exceptional ad-free digital experience of Deezer with access to 56 million tracks, personal curated content including local and global content as well as exclusive digital content from the largest record company in the Arab world. In addition, individual customers can get a 50% discount till January 2021 for the first 100,000 customers who subscribe to the service.

Commenting on this, Ahmed El-Abd, Chief Commercial Officer at Orange Egypt said “We seek through this cooperation, which is a strong addition to what we offer to our customers interested in music, to continue our lead in the field of cultural and musical activities and to provide all that is new and distinctive in the field of entertainment to the Egyptian market.”

"We will, in cooperation with Deezer, and a major company specialized in music production, offer a unique experience to our customers through the largest music platform, which includes a variety of Arabic and foreign content, modern and exclusive songs that meet all tastes," he added.

“Music is a natural part of life in Egypt and we want to make it easy for its fans to get to enjoy their favorite tunes. Orange is one of our closest partners in France and I’m genuinely excited to launch this partnership in Egypt. Getting your music and podcast fix should be easy. Working together with Orange allows us to offer Orange customers all the benefits of Deezer without any hassle,” said Tarek Mounir, Deezer’s CEO MENAT.