Tunisie Telecom

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Tunisie Telecom
Type Public limited company
Industry Telecommunications
Founded17 April 1995;28 years ago (1995-04-17) [1]
Headquarters,
Number of locations
2
Area served
Worldwide
Products Fixed line and mobile telephony, Internet services,
OwnerTunisian State (65%), Dubai Holding (via TECOM-DIG) (35%)
Number of employees
6,400 [2]
Website www.tunisietelecom.tn

Tunisie Telecom is the incumbent telecom operator in Tunisia. Tunisie Telecom has more than 6 million subscribers in the fixed and mobile telephony, in Tunisia and abroad.

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History

Tunisie Telecom has an important role in improving the rate of internet penetration in Tunisia, which allowed it to have 140,000 subscribers at the end of April 2008. [3]

In 2009, Huawei Marine Networks delivered the HANNIBAL submarine communications cable system for Tunisie Telecom across the Mediterranean Sea to Italy. [4] :310

Tunisie Telecom became a European telecoms operator with its 60% share purchase of the Maltese telecommunications company GO from the Emirati EIT for €200 million in June 2016. [5]

In December 2021, the Malagasy group Axian, led by Hassanein Hiridjee, made the highest bid among potential buyers for Mauritanian telecom operator Mattel, a subsidiary of Tunisie Telecom. His proposal would be around 100 million euros (DTH 326,106,511.50). [6]

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References

  1. (in French)
  2. (in French)
  3. "Tunisie Telecom - Particulier".
  4. Shinn, David H.; Eisenman, Joshua (2023). China's Relations with Africa: a New Era of Strategic Engagement. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN   978-0-231-21001-0.
  5. Fehri, Noonan (27 July 2016). "Financing market "Go Malta" not taken from state public finances (Noonan Fehri)".
  6. "ÉCONOMIE Mauritanie : Tunisie Télécom va-t-il vendre Mattel au profit d'Axian ?". 23 December 2021.