Communications in Morocco (original) (raw)

**Telephones - main lines in use:**1.391 million (1998)

**Telephones - mobile cellular:**116,645 (1998)

Telephone system:
_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

**Radio broadcast stations:**AM 27, FM 25, shortwave 6 (1998)

**Radios:**6.64 million (1997)

**Television broadcast stations:**26 (plus 35 repeaters) (1997)

**Televisions:**3.1 million (1997)

**Internet Service Providers (ISPs):**27 (1999)

Country code (Top level domain): MA

See also : Morocco