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Maroc Telecom signs $1bn investment deal with Moroccan government

26th August 2019

By: Reuters

  

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Maroc Telecom, Morocco's largest telecoms operator, said on Monday it had signed a deal worth ten-billion dirhams ($1-billion) with the Moroccan government to develop telecoms infrastructure over the next three years.

The deal, covering high-speed mobile broadband in addition to fixed lines, is the sixth of its kind between the company and the government, brings the company's total investments to 68-billion dirhams, Maroc Telecom said in a statement.

Maroc Telecom, listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange and Euronext in Paris, is 53% controlled by the United Arab Emirates telecoms group Etisalat.

The Moroccan government owns 22% after it recently sold an 8% stake in the company in a privatisation push to curb the country's budget deficit.

Maroc Telecom operates subsidiaries in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Togo and the Central African Republic.

The group's customer base grew 3.9% by June 2019 to 63-million users, including 19.3-million in Morocco.

Edited by Reuters

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