23 January 2026

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced a major partnership with Tunisie Telecom, Tunisia’s leading telecommunications provider, to enhance the country’s digital infrastructure and support its national transformation.

The deal involves a development-linked loan of up to €190 million, disbursed in four installments, starting with an initial €50 million tranche. This funding will enable extensive upgrades to Tunisia’s telecom networks, including transitioning from 4G to 5G, expanding fibre optic coverage, connecting up to 200,000 households to fibre-to-the-home services, and modernizing core and backbone networks. Additionally, targeted investments in energy efficiency and local energy production will be part of the project.

21 January 2026

Around the world, first responders rely heavily on paging and callout services to quickly alert emergency services personnel on call to incidents, provide them with short and precise information about the incident at hand, and to find out who is able to respond.

Callout is a defined specification developed by TCCA for TETRA networks for critical two-way alerting, but to date there has been no parallel specification for 3GPP 4G and 5G broadband networks. Now, TCCA has published new Broadband Callout specifications for 3GPP-enabled mission critical networks using broadband MCX functionality – Mission Critical Push-to-Talk Voice (MCPTT), Mission Critical Video (MCVideo) and Mission Critical Data (MC Data).