The Commercial Court of Rabat has just ordered Itissalat Al-Maghrib (IAM-Maroc Telecom) to pay 6.3 billion dirhams to its competitor Wana (inwi) who accuses it of "anti-competitive practices". A major blow for the Moroccan historical operator.
The Finance Committee in the House of Advisors has lowered the import duty applied to smartphones. What seems to be good news turns out to be very disadvantageous for local distributors and consumers.
The Moroccan government plans to increase the import duty applied to smartphones. As a result, the prices of these devices could increase significantly.
The Moroccan-born billionaire Patrick Drahi will speak on Monday and Tuesday about the corruption case shaking his telecoms group in an attempt to reassure his creditors. His right-hand man Armando Pereira, arrested in mid-July in Portugal, is accused of embezzlement.
The resumption of negotiations between Morocco and Spain on the tunnel to connect the two countries via the Strait of Gibraltar only concerns the study of the project. The actual realization of the infrastructure will be the subject of a new bilateral agreement, announced the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda.
France has taken new measures to regulate telephone canvassing, which will have a negative impact on about a hundred telemarketing agencies in Morocco.
The railway tunnel planned to connect Spain and Morocco via the Strait of Gibraltar will not see the light of day. Instead, a connection for fiber optics and telecommunications will be established, according to official Spanish sources.
Maroc Telecom and the tax authorities have reached a protocol agreement for the settlement of an amount of 600 million dirhams, following a tax audit carried out in June 2022.
Competition is fierce between the mobile operators IAM, Orange and Inwi in the roaming market at this time, when 80,000 Moroccan customers have joined Qatar to attend the Atlas Lions’ matches. They all want to get their share of the pie.
The London-based private investment fund specialized in Africa, Helios Investment Partners, announces that it has acquired a majority stake in two data centers in Morocco, Maroc Datacenter (MDC) and in Kenya (IXAfrica).
In Morocco, the launch of 5G is struggling to become a reality. And for good reason, the development of fiber optics is experiencing a huge delay.
Maroc Telecom’s appeal against the liquidation of the penalty imposed by the National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (ANRT) was rejected by the Rabat Court of Appeal.