Monday September 22, 2025, the Tunisian organization to inform the consumer (OTIC) denounced an excessive increase in red meat prices and internet services, highlighting the direct impact on the purchasing power of Tunisian households.
Red meat: prices that fly away despite lower costs
According to the OTIC, the prices of red meat reach record levels, even though production costs have fallen. This situation, according to the organization, creates an unjustified discrepancy which penalizes the consumer and accentuates the pressure on their food budget.
Indeed, the price of the lamb has exceeded the symbolic bar of the 60 dinars per kilo in certain regions. This flight is explained by an implacable equation: persistent drought, collapse of local production and speculation.
The state is trying to respond to it with regulation and importation, but is it really the solution?
Internet: rising and decreasing quality prices
The organization has also castigated the multiplication of upward pricing revisions for Internet services, denouncing in parallel quality deterioration. For the OTIC, Tunisian consumers undergo a double penalty: pay more for a less efficient service.
The OTOC has alerted, since September 3, to the constant deterioration of the quality of internet and telecoms services. It claims the immediate intervention of the supervisory authorities and the National Telecommunications (INT) to protect consumers and enforce the contractual commitments of suppliers.
According to OTIC, the main providers of Internet access ignore consumer complaints and continue to market deceptive offers, disconnected from technical reality.
