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      "text": "within a three-company programme of roughly 965,000 meters costing about US$226M that also serves Alexandria and North Delta",
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      "text": "Chairman Hesham Afifi set a 2024/25 target of 217,000 smart meters — 190,000 through the JICA project and 27,000 for large subscribers — alongside 317,000 conversions to prepaid cards",
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