Ooredoo Tunisia is a private

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company in

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. Set up with

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of 330 million

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s, it was founded on 11 May 2002. Ooredoo Tunisia is part of the

Ooredoo Ooredoo QSC ( ar, أريد; formerly ''Qtel'') is a Qatari multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Doha. Ooredoo provides mobile, wireless, wire line, and content services with market share in domestic and international telec ...

Group. With over 7.5M subscribers, it is the largest operator in Tunisia.

History

Ooredoo Tunisia started commercial operations on 27 December 2002. Six months later, its

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network covered 60% of the Tunisian population. As of June 30, 2006, it had more than 2.5 million subscribers and has now more than 5 million subscribers. As of 2005, the network covered 99% of the population. In early-2006, Ooredoo Tunisia launched

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and

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on the Tunisian market. On 24 May 2012 the company secured licenses to deliver 3G and fixed services. Tunisiana changed its branding to Ooredoo Tunisia on 24 April 2014. The CEO of the company is Youssef Al Masri.Youssef El-Masri, nouveau directeur général de Ooredoo Tunisie, 'Kapitalis', 26 novembre 201

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References

External links

Official website
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