Vivendi

Naoual El Ouafay, Responsible for Transmission Deployment Department, Maroc Telecom
(ASDR 2010)

Maroc Telecom contributes to information highways for development in Africa

« For several years, Maroc Telecom has been developing information highways linking all the cities in the Kingdom via broadband. With over 23,500 km of fiber-optic cables with capacities up to 1,200 Gb/s, its optical network is Morocco’s most extensive. It responds to growing Internet needs and is reducing the digital divide.
Maroc Telecom is extending this investment effort in its subsidiaries to modernize and widen their transmission infrastructures and enable access to the new ICTs for as many people as possible. In 2010, the Group continued the project to connect its subsidiaries via terrestrial fiber-optic cable to eventually link Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, and Burkina. The cable, with a capacity of up to 800 Gb/s, will also serve neighboring countries – Niger, Benin, Ghana, Togo, Guinea, and Ivory Coast –, who will benefit from fallout of the project.
These investments encourage the creation of new business activities such as community telephony (téléboutiques), cyber-centers, and ISPs, and strengthen the competitiveness of local SMEs. »