Summary Box: Licenses for Qatar Telecom’s unit

THE LICENSES: Qatar Telecom‘s Tunisian subsidiary has won licenses to operate services in Tunisia.

TIME FRAME: The former Qatar state monopoly, which goes by the name QTel, said it will launch the 3G — or “third generation” — network in July. It plans to roll out the landline service early next year.

BIGGER PICTURE: Qatar is playing an increasingly active role in Tunisia in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings. That worries many liberal Tunisians, who question their country’s growing dependence on the conservative Gulf state and fear it is trying to make Tunisia more Islamic.

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