K&M assessed the legal, regulatory, financial and investment framework for ARENTO as a first step in moving the utility towards commercialization and a competitive market entity. K&M undertook a policy reform and institutional framework analysis of the telecommunications sector in Egypt to determine constraints to ARENTO’s development as a progressive, financially viable telecommunications utility employing appropriate management and organizational structures. K&M performed a cost of service/tariff rate study to rationalize the institutional reform process. K&M’s evaluation and review also included: assessment of the legal, regulatory, and investment framework to determine steps necessary for the eventual commercialization and/or privatization of ARENTO; ARENTO’s operations technical assessment; ARENTO’s organizational assessment; and determine ARENTO’s optimal human resource requirements.