TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia will launch an international tender soon for a fixed-line telecoms licence, part of a drive to boost inward investment and quicken economic growth, a Tunisian newspaper reported on Monday.

"The project of a second fixed-line phone concession will be accelerated, to be finalised as soon as possible," daily Le Quotidien said.

"A team charged with this project in the telecoms ministry is preparing an international tender ... to select a second fixed-line phone operator," it added, without giving further details.

Government officials were not immediately available for comment.

Tunisia has one of the most developed telecoms industries in North Africa, but the market is maturing fast.

The country awarded a mobile phone licence in 2002 to Tunisiana, a joint venture of Kuwait's National Mobile Telecom (Wataniya) and Egypt's Orascom Telecom.

State-controlled Tunisie Telecom still holds a monopoly in fixed-line services and controls 72 percent of the mobile market.

It has about 4.5 million mobile and fixed-line customers in the North African country of 10 million.

Dubai's Tecom holds a 35 percent stake in Tunisie Telecom after outbidding France's Vivendi.