Orange Tunisie today announces the operational commissioning of the MEDUSA submarine cable, a strategic digital infrastructure that will durably strengthen Tunisia’s international connectivity and consolidate its position as a digital gateway between the two shores of the Mediterranean.
After its landing at Bizerte on 1st November 2025, the cable is now fully operational and is carrying its first streams of international traffic. Built by Medusa Submarine Cable System, this new cable system represents a major advance for the country’s digital infrastructure.
Orange Tunisie owns the Tunisian section of the cable as well as the landing station in Bizerte, thus affirming its commitment to invest in sovereign, state-of-the-art infrastructures to serve national digital development.
A new digital highway between Europe and North Africa
With more than 8,000 kilometers of submarine optical fiber linking, ultimately, thirteen countries across Southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, MEDUSA constitutes the largest submarine cable system in the Mediterranean. It strengthens digital exchanges between the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean by creating new connectivity routes that are more direct, more resilient and more capable.
The Tunisian segment rests on four fiber pairs, with a capacity of 24 Tbps per pair,
ensuring transmission capacities suitable for the growth of digital usage. This new infrastructure will notably enable:
- Significantly increase Tunisia’s international capacities;
- Strengthen the resilience of communications by diversifying international routes;
- Offer secure connectivity to the major European digital hubs;
- Support the development of cloud, data centers, artificial intelligence and new digital services.
A better Internet experience for Tunisia
The commissioning of the MEDUSA cable will improve Internet quality in Tunisia through increased capacity and improved diversification of international connections. This infrastructure will accompany the development of digital usages while improving the fluidity, availability and reliability of data exchanges.
It also meets the growing needs of businesses, administrations, operators and digital platforms for high-performance and secure international connectivity.
A driver of competitiveness for the Tunisian digital economy
By sustainably strengthening the country’s international infrastructures, Orange Tunisie supports Tunisia’s digital transformation and contributes to increasing its attractiveness to international investors.
The MEDUSA cable will contribute to the growth of the digital economy by supporting the development of next-generation technological infrastructures, data centers, innovative services and new digital usages, while consolidating Tunisia’s role as a regional connectivity hub between Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
A long-term investment strategy
Following the DIDON cable, put into service in 2014, the MEDUSA cable marks a new major milestone in Orange Tunisia’s investment strategy toward increasingly high-performing, secure and resilient international infrastructures.
Through this investment, Orange Tunisie confirms its intent to sustainably support the growth of digital usages and to equip Tunisia with infrastructures meeting the most demanding international standards.
On this occasion, Stéphane Varret, Chief Executive Officer of Orange Tunisia, says: “The commissioning of the MEDUSA cable marks a structural milestone for Orange Tunisia and for the entire Tunisian digital ecosystem. As the owner of the Tunisian section of the cable and of the Bizerte landing station, we are investing sustainably in strategic infrastructures that will improve Internet quality in Tunisia, strengthen the resilience of our international networks and bring the two shores of the Mediterranean closer together. This investment confirms our ambition to make Tunisia a key digital hub between Europe, Africa and the Middle East.”
Source: Press release
