Download Regulatory Agency ANRT

Global indicators workshop on
community access to ICTs
Mexico City
16-19 November 2004
Access to ICT in Morocco
Presented by: ZAZ Youssef
IT Responsible
KINGDOM OF MOROCCO
Department of Post, Telecommunication and Information Technologies
Phone: +212-62-10-21-67, Fax: +212-37-26-87-09
E-mail: [email protected]
Web site: http//www.septi.gov.ma
‫المملكة المغربية‬
Kingdom of Morocco
Royaume du Maroc
Reino de Marruecos
Area
: 710 000 Sq. Km
Population
: 30 Millions
Coast
: over 3,500 km.
Weather
: Mediterranean
Government : Constitutional monarchy
Per capita GDP: USD 1300
ICT in Morocco
There are number of institutions that are
involved in regulating and setting up policies
for the ICT sector:
 IT Department
 National Regulatory Agency of Telecom (ANRT)
 Broadcasting High Authority
 Ministry of Communication
 Ministry of Trade and Industry
 Ministry of Modernization of public sectors
IT Department
IT Department (Department in charge of Posts,
Telecommunications and Information Technology) is a
government administration unit in charge of developing
and implementing policies related to Post and Information
Technology.
It participates in the conceptualization of general
orientations of governmental policies in the field of
information technology, telecommunications, posts and
network development and prepares government action
plan on ITC domains.
Laws
 Law 24-96: Adopted in 1997, liberalization of
telecommunication sector and creation of National
Regulatory Agency of Telecom (ANRT).
 Law 55-01 : Extends universal service to ICT access
including Internet.
Some Telecommunication
statistics
 Cellular phone: 7,8 million (penetration rate: 26,06%).
 Fixed phone : 1,35 million (penetration rate: 4,4%).
 Number of PCs: 700 000 (Penetration rate: 2.36%).
 280 000 household have PC.
 TV: 4 100 000 (76% household have a TV).
Source ANRT 2004
Internet statistics
 In service : from 1995.
 Number of web sites: + 6000.
 Internet subscribers: 90 000 (44% ADSL).
 Internet users: + 1.000.000.
 International Bandwidth : ~ 710 Mb/s .
 Leased lines : 6300.
 Number of cyber café: 3900.
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Subscribers
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Internet users
Internet users
Subscribers
Evolution of subscribers and
Internet users
Number of annual declaration
and added value services
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1998
1999 2000 2001
total declaration
2002 2003
Internet declaration
regulatory and competitive
environment
Internet activity is liberalized, but influenced by fixed services monopole.
Technology/service
Stat of market
Number of licenses
Fixed phone
Monopole
1
GSM
Liberalized
2
VSAT
Liberalized
3
GMPCS
Liberalized
6
3RP
Liberalized
3
Internet penetration in
civil services
Penetration
rate
Type of
connection
ISPs
Debit
Web site
Administrations
Offices
Collectivities
70%
100%
44%
- 75 % by LS
- 20 % by PSTN
- 6 % by ISDN
- IAM : 89 %
- others : 11 %
- 128 Ko : 43 %
- 64 Ko : 41 %
47%
- 52 % by LS
- 10 % by PSTN
- 4% by RNIS
- IAM : 83 %
- others : 17 %
- 128 Ko : 43 %
- 64 Ko : 13 %
70%
- 50 % by PSTN
- 25 % by LS
-2 5 % by ISDN
- IAM : 75 %
- Others : 25 %
- 128 Ko : 25 %
- 56 Ko : 50 %
22%
IT Strategy
 Priority Area 1:
Education, training, research and
culture
Administration and local authorities
 Priority Area 3: Companies and the Economy
 Priority Area 4: Introducing ICT in social life
 Priority Area 5 : popularize E-commerce
 Priority Area 2:
The IT strategy deadlines:
 In 2005, Morocco aims reach the standard of
emerging countries. At that level, Morocco
focuses to register about 3 million Internet user,
representing about 10% of the population.
 In 2010, Morocco intends to reach the standards
of developed countries.
Thank you