Tunisie Telecom has committed to providing telecommunications services to the National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT), building upon its existing relationship with the organisation, ITWeb reported. The operator says it will offer SNJT members and their families preferential packages, payment facilities and advantageous rates for several services in its portfolio of fixed telephony, mobile and internet products.
New technologies will be installed at the union's headquarters, according to Nizar Bouguila, Tunisia Telecom CEO. The partnership between Tunisie Telecom and the Syndicat des Journalistes Tunisiens is strategic for the national operator and is of particular importance, in that it contributes to facilitating the work of journalists and enabling them to communicate information on time and with the required quality.
Tunisie Telecom has steadily improved this partnership since 2010 and will further enrich it. Neji Baghouri, president of the SNJT says Tunisie Telecom has done well to support the information sector in general and journalists in particular. The new deal between Tunisie Telecom and SNJT comes two months after Code for Africa, Google News Labs and the World Bank announced that they would give 6,000 African journalists training in data journalism skills by February 2018.