Destination Morocco

Communications Morocco

Telephones - main lines in use:

1,219,200 (2003)

Mobile phones

7,332,800 (2003)

Telephone system:

General assessment: modern system with all important capabilities; however, density is low with only 4.6 main lines available for each 100 persons.

Domestic: good system composed of open-wire lines, cables, and microwave radio relay links; Internet available but expensive; principal switching centers are Casablanca and Rabat; national network nearly 100% digital using fiber-optic links; improved rural service employs microwave radio relay.

International: country code - 212; 7 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; microwave radio relay to Gibraltar, Spain, and Western Sahara; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Algeria; participant in Medarabtel; fiber-optic cable link from Agadir to Algeria and Tunisia (1998)

Radio stations:

AM 27, FM 25, shortwave 6 (1998)

T.V. stations:

35 (plus 66 repeaters) (1995)

Internet code:

.ma

Internet hosts:

3,627 (2004)

Internet users:

800,000 (2003)