The monopolistic Vsat and Wimax provider Divona Telecom has officially changed its corporate name to orange Tunisia after winning a bid to provide exclusive 2G and 3G cell services becoming in the same time part of the French Telecom group with less than 50% shares as stipulated by the the Tunisian regulations.

The move was expected as part of the new marketing strategy of the company to introduce a well know brand rather than using an old Vsat and Wimax provider barely know or even creating a new brand from the mix.

Ornage France has many exclusive contracts allowing to distribute Black berry and Iphone a growing trends in the telecoms markets with the lack of support from Tunisia telecom and the inability of Tunisiana to market any phones locally other than the HTC.

Months ago, Divona did merge with its little sister compagny Planet a major Tunisian ISP with hundreds of sales shops and hundreds of technical support all over the country, Ornage Tunise will certainly benefit from this asset making it easier to distribute their goods in no time.

Divona telecom has also build a solid structure of Wimax with mostly 60% coverge in the tunisiana territory thus adding GSM repeaters on the Wimax tours already available would be an other benefit to spred its cellular coverge in a couple of months, already outsourced to Huwawei the Chinese telecommunication company doing business in Tunisia and other European partners as Satec.

Via [Tn Geeks]

A Tunisie Telecom insider reported that the compgany is working closely with Huawei in order to relase a new AI cards service. The new Air Cards are being tested TT laboratries after the EDGE services has been working since the release of the Black Berry a couple of months ago.

Huawei Marine announced Friday, the conclusion of a turnkey contract signed with Tunisia Telecom to supply a system of submarine cable called HANNIBAL linking Tunisia and Italy.

The "HANNIBAL System " run for 170 km and connects Kelibia in the Italian town of Mazara, across the Mediterranean, with a maximum capacity of 3.2 Tbps. Once completed in late 2009, the "System Hannibal" develop a capacity of 80 wavelengths 10Gbit/sec per fiber pair, with the capability to be increased to 40Gbit/s to meet the demand for international communication.

The "System Hannibal" will play an important role in external communications of Tunisia. Marine Networks Huawei is a reliable partner that offers excellent solutions and a delivery capacity confirmed, two reasons which have dictated the choice of Huawei Marine. "Said Montassar Ouaili, CEO of Tunisie Telecom.

"We are honored to be the prime contractor for the" System Hannibal "and we are proud to be able to contribute to the development of telecommunications in Tunisia. Marine Huawei will provide a system of submarine cables with a huge capacity and high reliability as well as the most cost-effective solutions for customers. We will provide a better project and plan for greater cooperation in the future, "said its share Ian Douglas, CEO of Huawei Marine Networks.
Marine Networks Huawei Co., Ltd is a joint venture by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and Global Marine Systems Limited. It is the world leader in optical communications technology and is specialized in building communications networks submarine world.