Orange - Tunisia

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Orange (Tunisia) uses 2 GSM bands and 1 UMTS band. Find out if your unlocked phone or mobile device will work with Orange (Tunisia). See the tables below for details.

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Carrier website: http://www.orange.tn/

Orange Tunisia offers a robust mobile network experience, particularly in terms of gaming and over-the-top (OTT) voice services. Here are some key highlights:

  1. Gaming Experience: Orange Tunisia provides the best available experience for playing multiplayer games on a cellular network, scoring 49.1 points on a 100-point scale. This places it ahead of Ooredoo and Tunisie Telecom, which are in a two-way statistical tie for second place with scores in the 41.0-41.6 range.

  2. OTT Voice Services: Orange Tunisia also excels in OTT voice services, such as WhatsApp, Skype, and Facebook Messenger, with a score of 76.2 points, placing it in the Acceptable (74-80) category. Ooredoo and Tunisie Telecom are in joint second place with scores just above 68 points.

  3. Availability: Orange Tunisia, along with Ooredoo, ties for first place in the Availability award, indicating that users on these networks spend most of their time connected to a 3G or 4G signal, with scores ranging from 95.6 to 96.

  4. 4G Coverage Experience: Orange Tunisia and Ooredoo are in a two-way tie for the 4G Coverage Experience award, scoring 5.5-5.6 points on a 10-point scale. Tunisie Telecom follows closely with a score of 5.2 points.

  5. Video Experience: While Ooredoo and Tunisie Telecom share the Video Experience award, Orange Tunisia's performance in this metric is not specified in the provided sources.

  6. Download and Upload Speeds: Ooredoo and Tunisie Telecom offer the fastest average download and upload speeds, with average download speeds ranging from 19.7 to 20.8 Mbps and average upload speeds over 8 Mbps.

  7. Consistent Quality: Orange Tunisia shares the Excellent Consistent Quality award with Ooredoo and Tunisie Telecom, indicating that a significant percentage of users’ tests on these networks meet the minimum recommended performance thresholds for HD video streaming and group video conference calls.

  8. Core Consistent Quality: Orange Tunisia and Tunisie Telecom are in a statistical tie for second place in the Core Consistent Quality award, which measures the percentage of users’ tests that meet the minimum recommended performance thresholds for lower performance applications like SD video, voice calls, and web browsing. Ooredoo emerges as the outright winner in this category with a score of 83.9%.

Overall, Orange Tunisia offers a strong mobile network experience, particularly in gaming and voice services, and maintains a high level of availability and consistent quality.

Frequency Bands

GSM

Name Interface Description
900 MHz (E-GSM) GSM

Orange Tunisia uses the GSM 900 MHz (E-GSM) frequency band. This band operates in the range of 880 MHz to 915 MHz for the uplink and 925 MHz to 960 MHz for the downlink.
1800 MHz (DCS) GSM

Orange Tunisia uses the GSM 1800 MHz (DCS) frequency band. This band operates within the 1.8 GHz frequency range, with an uplink frequency of 1710–1785 MHz and a downlink frequency of 1805–1880 MHz. It was introduced in 1991 as an extension of the GSM standard and is primarily used in Europe. The GSM 1800 MHz band offers reduced signal interference and greater channel availability compared to the more crowded 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands used by GSM. It provides services such as voice communication, text messaging (SMS), and basic data communications, similar to GSM.

UMTS

Name Interface Description
B1 (2100 MHz) UMTS

Orange Tunisia uses the UMTS B1 (2100 MHz) frequency band. The deployment date is unknown.

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