TTE, a telecommunications solutions integrator in Tunisia, and member of One Tech Group, and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a partnership agreement for supplying enterprise voice and data solutions in Libya and Tunisia. Related Articles The partnership positions Alcatel-Lucent as a reference supplier of network infrastructure, IP telephony, call centers, applications and services. The company said that the two organizations will work together to offer communication services while enabling network infrastructure to help businesses and governments increase competitiveness. The services supplied by.
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This event is supported by organizations and institutions of international renown in the field of CRM and Customer Relationship and the support of prestigious media. The 2008 edition of Convergence Expo this year is articulated around three main themes, the success of the Customer Relationship Strategy, offering offshore call centers and Tunisians Any IT or new picture of Client Relations. Go to [Convergences Expo website] .
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On the recurrent dilemma of volume versus value, Eric Kerbouriou of Tunisiana, owned by Egypt’s Orascom Telecom, stressed the necessity to strike a balance. He argued that loyalty programs to retain high-value customers needs to accompany the expansion of services to low cost users. Country strategy examples from Sudan, Tunisia and Lebanon were followed by a presentation on the advantages of infrastructure sharing to cut costs. Comprising Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia, the region had 102 million subscriptions at end of 2007, but penetration remains low at .
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Many of the poorer countries in the region have vast swathes of their land not covered by GSM or any other connectivity. Sierra Leone, to pick one random example, has no coverage except in and around its capital, Freetown. It is wise not to expect coverage when travelling outside major urban centres, even to some large towns. Having said that, some vast areas have been covered by pioneering operators who cannot rely on the sort of infrastructure taken for granted in much of the rest of the world - a reliable national electricity grid to power base stations, for example. South Africa, Swazila.
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Figures recently released by the Ministry of Communication Technologies reveal a significant growth of mobile phone and internet users in Tunisia. In June 2008 the two mobile phone operators (Tunisie Telecom and Tunisiana) had a combined 8.12 million mobile phone subscribers up from 7 million twelve months earlier. At the same point, there were 2.68 million internet users compared to 1.68 million in June 2007. The number of ADSL connections has doubled from 76,000 in 2007 to 153,000 in 2008. 27% of users have 512KB connections, and 22,000 users have a connection equal or superior to 1Mbps. T.
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The GSMA just announced that entries are invited for the 2009 Global Mobile Awards and the penultimate round of its Mobile Innovation Global Competition, both of which will be presented at the mobile industry’s biggest annual event, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 17 February 2009. The GSMA’s Global Mobile Awards are a unique platform for companies in the mobile industry to gain truly independent recognition for their work. This year’s awards incorporate several new categories including a new ‘Green Mobile’ Award (highlighting eco-friendly mobile products, services and in.
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Online Realtime Chess - Play against other users .
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101 Photoshop Tips in 5 Minutes — This is Rapid-Fire Learning, Folks Photoblog .
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According to Swedish case maker Krusell, the Top 10 selling mobile phones in June 2008 were: 1. (8) Apple iPhone 2. (5) HTC Diamond 3. (3) Nokia E51 4. (2) Nokia 6300 5. (1) Nokia 3109 6. (9) LG KU990 7. (6) Nokia N95 8 GB 8. (4) Sony Ericsson K810i 9. (-) Sony Ericsson K530i 10. (10) Sony Ericsson W890i () = Last month's position. At the moment, many companies in the Accessory industry are loading their warehouses with iPhone accessories just waiting for the European launch of the 3G version on July 11. The list is based upon the number of pieces of model specific mobile and smart phone ca.
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...Nokia has recovered almost all of Symbian shares at Sony Ericsson, Ericsson, Panasonic, Siemens, Samsung is the only one that has not yet given its agreement, all for a total of 264 million euros. But where Nokia hard knocks, it is precisely that the Finnish mark does not keep for itself and Symbian has announced Symbian Foundation to transform Symbian free software under license Eclipse. Suddenly, everyone is interested including AT & T, LG Electronics, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone and we will be able to see both the S60 .
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There are two reasons why it should not be illegal, or considered unethical, to use someone else's Wi-Fi network: 1) By using a Wi-Fi network you're -- by definition -- asking for, and receiving, permission from the owner; and 2) Your computer can't be on their Wi-Fi network unless their network is in your computer. Via [Mike Elgan] It's happening here in Tunisia all the time, I'll be covering a whole story soon. .
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Téléphone Portable + Maïs = Pop-corn - Vidéo Via [Nostradamus] .
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In a recent annual report released by the Arab Advisors, a research firm that specializes in communications, Tunisia is ranked 12th just behind Libya and Algeria, I never imagined that Libya could be ranked so high! Via [Jazarah] .
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Found in Twitter, an other furious customer is showing his anger against the Tunisie Telecom (The only land lines operator), the message says: "After 8 complaints and 4 month delay, I got a pulse less wire!". Hope one one day we would be wearing T-shits written down: I like TT! but right now all we can feel against TT is hate and fury. .
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Based on reliable sources that Ahmed Mahjoub CEO of Tunisia Telecom has been dismissed and he was replaced by Mr. Montassar Ouaili just be recalled when he was so far the post ambassador to Tunisia to Italy. Montassar Ouaili had already served as minister of communication technologies, secretary of state for scientific research and Secretary of State for information technology. Appointment hopes that bodes well for the future of telecommunications in Tunisia. Via [Stupeur] I'm quite optimist as much as Amine, but I think that the company needs more than just flushing down the old boss beca.
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It has almost down since this morning, an insider from Tunisie Telecom is reporting a general failure due to an issue with the DNS server related to the ARPA or ICANN -still not quite sure. The issue has been sloved right now, the ISP recommanded their customers to restart their router/modems .
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A delegation of Communications and Information Technology Commission (ITC) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, led by Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Jaafari, Governor of ITC, concluded an official visit to Tunisia today after having taken part in the fifth annual meeting of the general assembly of the Arab Network for the Commissions Regulating Telecommunications and Information Technology, which was held over the past two days in the Tunisian city of Hammamat. During the meeting, the Saudi delegation presented the Kingdom's experience in the areas of informatics and communication techniques and information i.
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Google car in Tunisia? .
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Zembra and Zembretta are safe now! .
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In Tunisia, the VoIP lacking a strict legislation is prohibited for use by corporations, under the pressure and the fear of Tunisie Telecom, that very innovative and useful technology was used under secrecy by most of the CRP business: 90% are call centers whose axe bone is about to get communications absolutely through digital channels with France. In a very strange and unatteneded move, ATI the governmental Internet provider having hold control of all the Internet over all the private ISPs have blocked the VoIP ports and stream since last week for all customers using local T1 connections, o.
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The Mod Archive - UnreaL / PM (2ND_PM.S3M) .
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Credits goes to [A7kili] Shots send by Kerek E.T. .
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It has been more than 6 months that Tunisiana is trying to get an agreement with Black Berry in order to introduce a full support of the handled to its customers, according to our insider in Tunisiana, the challenge is not technical, the current systems can easily support BB, but the clue is that they will have to pay fees for ever connected BB. The Black Berry itself is not that popular in Tunisia, remember that number one phone locally is Nokia, but many corporations are bringing with them their own tools and technology, as for roaming it works great thus many companies have to get a Europe.
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JPGmag Discussion group .
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Screen shots of Vodaphone Tunisia testing their network (ID:60511 ans 605 12) from their headquarters in the franch Alcatel labs in El Ghazela. for more in formations take a look here. Photos creadits goes to Kerek E.T. .
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Schlumberger offering Vsat services .
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Schlumberger Tunisia a local company of the oil services worldwide German company have started recently offering Vsat connection services under a license from Divona, its first customer was OMV, going beyond a lightly more expensive fees but getting a total faith into the quality of service that made Schlumberger the first oil service company of the world. Schlumberger is relaying to its sat division in Aberdeen in Scotland s small company acquired years ago integrated in the SIS (Schlumberger Information Services)offering a very high availability vsat connection going from point to point and.
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I was invited last Saturday by Radio Tounes Bledi a Tunisian main stream radio in a show celled "Bridging Worlds" where the talk was about my "Tunisia Wireless" blog. The conversation was pretty cool and I did explain why I did start this blog and why I did in English and how far can I go with this little project. Take a look at [Radio Tounes Bledi(french)] .
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If you're around Arinana and that you do a network after midday, you'll certainly find out a third GSM network labeled 605 12 offering UMTS connection, it's carzy but that's the third phone operator in Tunisia. Vodaphone is getting in the ever flourishing Tunisian market through Alcatel warehouse in the Gazella Technology center, it's planned to be fully working by the end of the year. Vodaphone will give the market a real squeeze even tied with the local legislation, as usual let's wait and see .
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Belive or not, a running bid is under the works for the acquisition of the permit to exploit Tunisian land phones in Tunisiana, the bid was lanched lately with Tunisinana and Divona on the race. Tunisie Telecom will soon get a competitor to its low quality land lines service, the land phones business includes also ISDN, ADSL, T1, ... If ever one of those -Especillay Tunisiana- gets in the permit we;re going to see better services and lower prices -even from Tunisie itself- areal improvement in the service, just imagine that your ADSL with less paperwork for the 1/10 of the price installed i.
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TUNIS, Tunisia, April 22, 2008 - Cisco today reconfirmed its commitment to support the economic development of Tunisia by unveiling plans to open its first office in the Tunisian capital. With the North Africa region emerging as a key area of growth for Cisco, the company's announcement comes at a time when Tunisia has begun to harness the power of information and communications technology (ICT) to drive its development. "The new office will mark yet another milestone for Cisco in Tunisia," said Adel Dahmani, general manager, Cisco Tunisia. "The vision of the country's leadership has allowed .
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Tunisie Telecom has introduced a wap portal for its mobile phone customers. The portal Ahaya is open to all subscribers, offering information on news,... .
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Tunisiana is starting today a new service through its portable and a dedicted wap site offering hundreds of doownloble -via mobile- games and applications, it would be the first time that a phone operator offers such service. .
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CDMA Continues Rapid Expansion in Africa and the Middle East With 65 Operators Deploying the Technology CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 11, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- The CDMA Development Group (CDG) today announced that Africa and the Middle East are the fastest growing in terms of the number of 3G CDMA networks and subscribers, with 65 operators in 38 countr .
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 11, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- The CDMA Development Group (CDG) today announced that Africa and the Middle East are the fastest growing in terms of the number of 3G CDMA networks and subscribers, with 65 operators in 38 countries who have selected the technology to provide affordable telecommunications services and more than 12 million subscribers in the region. Of the list of operators, Algeria Telecom, Movicel in Angola, Starcomms of Nigeria, Sudatel, Wana in Morocco and Yemen Mobile all surpassed the one million CDMA subscriber mark in the past year. These miles.
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Al-Qaeda claims Austrian hostages The declaration, made in an audio broadcast aired on al-Jazeera TV, said the duo were kidnapped on 22 February. A spokesman who called himself Salah Abou-Mohammad said it was retribution for the West's support of Israel. Austria's foreign ministry s .
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We just knew from a Tunisiana insider that Planet is suing Tunisiana for "selling Internet services", as you know, Tunisiana have started selling a new EDGE service to its customers: a PCIMCA Air card (Sony Eriscon GC85 and GC89 for 400 and 600 TND) and now a much simpler USB Alcatel Modem (For 220 TND) using the same bandwidth as the GSM stream you use to call. The product is mobile and cost all over the purchase of the Card and 50 bucks per months suitable for any internet mania or business man, the product was so successful that Tunisian run out of stocks, therefore Planet Tunisie (The maj.
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Did you notice a new teasing ad in the city? It's an other Tunisiana Hold on sign for the new voice message service, record your message and send it directly to the phone number you like, a fast and efficient way to spread a word, save time or to keep you waiting foe hang up. More details coming soon. (Photo creadits to Blog2Com) .
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The capacity of the submarine cable system South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4 (SEA-ME-WE-4), which connects many countries between Singapore and France, is to be doubled by the end of 2009 under a multi-million dollar project. The upgrade will be beneficial to India, as the cable system in one of the major bandwidth providers to the country. The doubling of the cable system would result in increasing the trunk capacity of the cable and helping it support increasing broadband traffic along the route. The cable system, owned by a consortium of 16 telecom carriers, has awarded the u.
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Loss record of 5.4 million in 2007 DT; decline in turnover of 9.4% for our Operator history in the civil engineering and installation projects and expansion of the urban network. Why are witnessing-2006 with a financial situation which is getting worse SOTETEL more? On Friday, February 29, 2008: A financial communications, unusual, presented by Mr Ahmed MAHJOUB, in his capacity as Chairman of the Board of sotetel, came explain the reasons for this decline: -- Increased costs of materials -- Delays in building permits -- High level of fixed costs -- Delay in the implementation of the restruc.
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Mauritanian-Tunisian mobile phone provider Mattel has made significant growth in its turnover, with the number of subscribers up in 2007 to nearly 500,000, compared to 239,000 the previous year. In the field of transport, Mauritania Airways was established in 2006, in partnership with Tunis Air. The state of Mauritania owns 51 percent of the company's capital. Via [Magharebia] Tunisie Telecom have been acting outside Tunisia especially in Mauritania and Palestine, why the company didn't acquire enough expertise in its main market? .
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the telecom integrator and operator specializing in the innovation and deployment of wireless broadband technologies, announced today that it continues its negotiations with Tunisia Telecom in order to act as the provider of this state-of-the-art technology within the territory of Tunisia. Via [Market Wire] An insider of Tunisie Telecom just told me about this deal, TT is in process of signing a partnership with the Canadian company to provide Wireless service basically Wimax, the great boom including Tunisiana and some Tunisian ISPs is just getting prepared, the Wimax prices will fall to m.
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All the news all over Tunisia realted to the world of Wireless: Wifi, Wimax, Satellite, EDGE,GSM,UTMS... some talk about photography in Tunisia .
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Tunisie Telecom has launched on the market FIXI a package which offers capped consumers with multiple benefits. 1.La mastery of the budget: FIXI allows you to define in advance the maximum monthly expenditure in communication for a fixed line. 2.The choice: With three types of packages capped: 10, 15 or 20 TND per month , the customer can choose the best suited to its consumption. Each plan provides for credit of communication: -- The package gives FIXI 10DT entitled to a credit communication 11DT (for comparison, a reload card of 10 TD gives credit 9DT) -- The package gives FIXI 15DT enti.
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