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, only the big companies having dedicated international T1 connection or subscribed to Divona's Wimax services still have their VoIP working.

The panic is what describes a tens of small and middle sized call center all over Tunis, whose business is down since a while, what's going on? and what the hell made ATI do that? Are they trying to make everybody get a much more expensive service or is it just that they can't still control VoIP?

Credits goes to [A7kili]



Shots send by Kerek E.T.

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 or US Sim to make their BB working in Tunisia, it's a little expensive considering the roaming fees, but it seems that's really worth it.

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.

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)]

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

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 in a couple of hours.