The Internet in Morocco is among the more developed in the

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region. The

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(ccTLD) of

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

is .ma.

Access

According to the

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, Morocco has 20,535,174 Internet users, or a 58.3% penetration rate as of June 2017. This includes 12 million

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users. Between 2013 and 2014, the Moroccan Internet population grew by 1 million. As of 2015, 94.1% of Moroccan

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s use mobile devices to access the Internet. In June 2015, Meditel became the first operator in the country and in North Africa to deploy 4G, followed two days later by

Inwi Inwi () (formerly known as Wana) is a telecommunications company in Morocco. One of the three major Internet service providers in the country, it is a subsidiary of the Moroccan holding Al Mada and the Kuwaiti group Zain. With more than 380 b ...

. In July 2015,

Maroc Telecom Maroc Telecom (IAM, ) is the main telecommunications company in Morocco. Currently employing around 11,178 employees, it is the largest telecommunications network in the country with 8 regional delegations and 220 offices present across Morocco. ...

deployed their 4G network, few weeks after its competitors. According to the

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, 8

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s are located in Morocco. These include

Orange Morocco Orange Maroc (or previously Meditel) is one of three major licensed telecommunications operators in Morocco. The multi-service operator offers mobile, fixed-line, cybersecurity and mobile payment offerings. Created in 1999, it is the second op ...

, and

. To access the internet, the following options are available: 4G, ADSL, Fibre Internet, VSAT, CDMA, and public Wi-Fi.

Censorship

In 2020,

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gave Morocco an Internet Freedom Score of 54/100, labeling its Internet "Partly Free."

References

Inovat - Agence Web Rabat Maroc
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