Short facts about communications in Morocco

Telephones - main lines in use:

1.391 million (1998)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

116,645 (1998)

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:  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 broadcast stations:

AM 27, FM 25, shortwave 6 (1998)

Radios:

6.64 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

35 (plus 66 repeaters) (1995)

Televisions:

3.1 million (1997)

Internet country code:

.ma

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

8 (2000)

Internet users:

120,000 (1999)

Source: World Factbook