At least satellite is free.:
Because of Cairo’s situation in the Nile delta, there used to be large agricultural communities. Now that the city has grown, the farmers responded by starting to build homemade highrises on their property. They would build a floor, and live in it/rent it out while they continued to build upward. Because of the construction, the lack of proper facilities and utilities, large portions of the city look almost like a forest of treehouses. But there always are these dishes *everywhere.* Hundreds on some of the buildings.
