The following is an outline ofcommunications technology inMorocco.
While the Moroccantelecoms market remains under-saturated, its three mobile operators –– both at home and abroad –– have experienced robust growth in recent years.Meditel, which received a mobile licence in 2000, is the kingdom's first private operator, holding 36.69% of the market. While the company performed strongly last year, registering a 17% growth in client base (to 7.4m) over the first three quarters of 2008, it began to falter asconsumer spending slowed, resulting in a 1% annual increase in turnover for Q2 2009. Meditel's focus on lower-income markets impacted their average revenue per user, which fell by 16%, but the resulting expansion of the customer base helped drive up the country's mobile penetration rate from 65.7% in 2007 to 74% in 2008. Meditel's biggest competitor isMaroc Telecom, holding 60.71% of the market. A formerstate monopoly now controlled by French entertainment giantVivendi, Maroc Telecom is one of the region's fastest-growingmultinational telecoms operators, actively pursuing expansion across northwest Africa, includingGabon,Mauritania andBurkina Faso. MT has announced plans to create a fibre-optic network connecting the Moroccan citiesLaâyoune andDakhla toNouadhibou, which would ultimately be extended to otherNorth African countries.
Meditel and MT operated a duopoly until 2008, when the state regulator Agence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications waved inWana,[1][2] owned by Morocco'sOmnium Nord Africain.[3] Though holding a tiny share (2.6%) of the voice market, this new player has captured a majority of the3G market (69.11%). Total subscribers for this new technology increased 527% in 2008. In early 2009, Wana sold a 31% stake for €228m ($324m/MAD 2.85bn) to the partnership of twoKuwaiti companies, mobile operatorZain and Al Ajial Investment Fund Holding,[4][5] to help finance the roll out of its 15-year2G GSM network at the end of 2009.[6][7] In August 2019, the government signed a MAD 10 billion investment deal with Maroc Telecom to improve telecom infrastructure in the country.[8]
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Morocco has a constantly failing system composed of open-wire lines, cables, andmicrowave radio relay links. Theinternet is available but slow, and overpriced in comparison to Europe and the United States. The principal switching centers areCasablanca andRabat. An improved rural service employs microwave radio relay.
The system has seven submarine cables, three satellite earth stations, twoIntelsat (over theAtlantic Ocean) and oneArabsat. There is a microwave radio relay toGibraltar,Spain and theWestern Sahara.Coaxial cables and microwave radio relays exist toAlgeria. Morocco is a participant in Medarabtel and a fiber-optic cable links fromAgadir to Algeria andTunisia.
First radio service began in 1928 in Morocco.[10]
The country had more than 16.3M of internet users in 2012.[12]Operated byMaroc Telecom (IAM). The service started as a test in November 2002 before it was launched in October 2003 and it is one of the most technologically advanced Internet services in the African continent but the service is monopolised by IAM. The service is offered by the subsidiaryMenara.The company is the best in the Moroccan market in the ADSL, optic fiber and they offers the following options:
Personal ADSL (All of those offers are available with a 12 months or above engagement) :
The installation is free, but theADSLmodem orrouter is not always free.
IAM is the only ISP who operate underwater cables and national cables, the things that cause a huge monopoly in the Moroccan market, the other ISPs can always rent a part of the leader's infrastructure.
Orange Morocco offersADSL,optic fiber and4G+ but their connexions is considered as the weakest in the country according toOokla .
INWI offersADSL,optic fiber and4G+ the internet provided byINWI is lower than IAM refers toOokla but they have the largest coverage and the highest bandwidth when it comes to 4G+ referred toNetwork Performance which makes the IPS great for those who uses mobile data.
Mobile data prices (Without engagement) :
The plans are 0,5 GB (500 MB), 1 GB, 2 GB, 2,5 GB, 3 GB, 5 GB, 10 GB and 20 GBTo calculate the price of each plan, multiple the number of GBs by 10 and you should get the price in MAD.
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