Everything about Maroc Telecom totally explained
Maroc Telecom (;
Itissalatt Al Maghreb;
Acronym:
IAM) is the main
telecommunication .
IAM employs around 11,178 employees. It has 8 regional delegations with 220 offices present on all the territory of
Morocco.
IAM is controlled by
Vivendi Universal which has a 53% share of its capital. The company is listed in both
Casablanca Stock Exchange and
Euronext Paris.
In
June 1,
2006, IAM launched the
Internet television package via the
ADSL line. The service was the first of its kind in
Africa and the
Middle East.
History
From postal services to telephony
The origin of IAM dates back to
1891 when King
Hassan I created the first postal service of Morocco. In
1913, the Moroccan
Postal Telephone and Telegraph was established before a
Dahir (King's
decree) related to the
monopole of the state of
Telegraphy and
Telephony was published.
Telephony
In
1967, Morocco placed the first
underwater cable between
Tetouan,
Morocco and
Perpignan,
France through the
Mediterranean. A few years later, in
1970, a transmission via
INTELSAT was introduced. The
Telex service was then automated in
1971 just before the installating of a
digital center in
Fes.
Due to the advancement of
Telecommunications around the globe, Morocco decided to create a new entity called
ONPT (
Office National des Postes et Télécommunications) to manage the industry. ONPT was responsible of the introduction of Analog Mobile Radiotelephony in
1987. Later on, in
1992, Morocco set up the first underwater
optical fiber cable. Two years later, a
GSM service was operational.
Internet
The internet was introduced in Morocco by
ONPT in
1995.
The birth of IAM
After the publication of a telecommunications'
decree,
Maroc Telecom (IAM) is founded in
1998.
Activities
IAM has three main activities:
Land lines
It consists of the provision of public phones throughout Morocco. The fixed park reaches 1,34 million lines.
Mobile phones
Mobile services are provided via a
GSM network. Morocco Telecom counted 8,8 million customers at at the end of
December 2005. Its network covers 97% of the
Moroccan population.
Internet services
IAM provides over more than 9,700 kilometres of fibre-optic cables. The park is around 320.000 lines. The service is commercialized under the
Menara brand.
Projects and investments
In
July 2006 Maroc Telecom signed with the
French telecommunications equipment company
Alcatel a contract for a
submarine cable network connection between Morocco and France. Morocco Telecom's aim is to upgrade the capacity of its services (for example
broadband services,
call centers...). The project cost
€ 26 million and was named "
Atlas Offshore".
In December 2006, IAM invested in
Burkina Faso’s
ONATEL acquiring 51% of its capital.
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