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Tunisia improves its internet connectivity

For internet services, Tunisia has become one of the better connected countries in the region. In 2009 it laid the Hannibal cable which gave it a separate link to Italy, The country by late 2022 will be tied into Google’s Blue-Raman submarine cable linking to Italy, France, and Greece, as well as to a number of Middle East countries and onto India.

Work on the 10,000km Africa-1 cable started in early 2021, and is expected to be lit in late 2023. This cable will connect several points in Africa (including Tunisia) with the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. A second stage will provide connectivity from Kenya to South Africa, via Tanzania and Mozambique.

Tunisia will also be connected to the 8,700km Medusa Submarine Cable System in the Mediterranean, which began to be deployed earlier in 2022. The several landing stations on the cable are expected to be ready by 2025.

There was a 22 per cent increase in international internet bandwidth in 2021, year-on-year, and these new cables will go far to supporting the rapid growth in data traffic anticipated in coming years. Tunisia already has the third faster average mobile data rate on the continent, behind only Morocco and South Africa. This new infrastructure is crucial for the country to realise its ambitions for developing a strong digital economy.