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Industry | Telecommunications |
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Founded | 1992; 33 years ago (1992) |
Headquarters | Port Louis, Mauritius |
Area served | Nationwide |
Key people | Kapildeo Reesaul(CEO) – 01 August 2022 Michel Degland(Deputy CEO) |
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Number of employees | 2,338 |
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Website | www |
Mauritius Telecom (MT) is atelecommunications company inMauritius, a small republic in theIndian Ocean. The company had about 392,000 fixed line customers, 969,000 mobile customers, 404,000 fibre-ready homes, 178,000 IPTV customers, and 255,000 broadband internet customers (my.t ADSL) as of December 2019.
Mauritius Telecom was founded in July 1992 by a merger between the former Overseas Telecommunications Services Ltd and Mauritius Telecommunication Services Ltd. As from that date, Mauritius Telecom became the major provider of voice, mobile, internet and data communication services in Mauritius.
In 1996, Cellplus Mobile Communications Ltd, aMobile Network Operator and a fully owned subsidiary of Mauritius Telecom launched theGSM network in Mauritius and later during the same year Telecom Plus Ltd, another fully owned subsidiary of Mauritius Telecom as from 2006, launched adial-up internet access service.
In November 2000, France Telecom (nowOrange S.A.) became the majority shareholder of Mauritius Telecom by acquiring 40% of its shares. Following the partnership with France Telecom, Telecom Plus Ltd launchedbroadband internet access in 2002 under theWanadoo brand.
The two companies launched theirIPTV services branded as my.t in June 2006, which enabled Mauritius to become among the first countries in the world to launch IPTV services.
On 17 April 2008, Mauritius Telecom re-branded its mobile and internet services as Orange. Cellplus Prepaid and Post Paid were rebranded as Orange Prepay and Post Pay. Telecom Plus dial-up internet access and Wanadoo ADSL as Orange Dial-Up and Orange ADSL.
In 2013, Mauritius Telecom introduced fibre-optic broadband. In May 2015, Mauritius Telecom announced that as from 1 June 2015, all its 850,000Orange mobile customers would receive free unlimited access toFacebook.
After a 10-year branding agreement with Orange came to an end in September 2017. All Mauritius Telecom products were re-branded under the my.t brand on 9 November 2017.[2]
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Mauritius Telecom owns the following companies:
Mauritius Telecom portfolio of fixed, mobile, broadband and IPTV services is consolidated under one single umbrella brand: my.t.