Phone scratch card shortage following NTRA decision to raise prices 36%

If you’ve been feeling like you cannot get a scratch card anymore from your local kushk, it’s because there’s been a shortage on the cards since the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) announced it would raise their prices by 36%. Mobile network operators have apparently been withholding new shipments of phone cards in order to clear out current inventory of scratch cards, a number of distributors tell Al Borsa. Etisalat Misr had reportedly recently started distributing newly priced cards as of yesterday, one distributor said.