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26-615: With more than 50 000 branches, Inwi is the third largest telecommunications company in Morocco, after Maroc Telecom and Orange . Inwi's network covers more than 92% of the country's territory. Based in Casablanca, Wanadoo Maroc was created in 1999, by Karim Zaz. In 2004 and following the withdrawal of France Telecom, Wanadoo Morocco sold its subsidiary Maroc Connect to local investors: Attijariwafa bank and Caisse de dépôt nationale via its subsidiary, Fipar holding. In 2005, ONA became

52-462: A consulting activity for digital companies (particularly Green tech and smart cities), via partnership with Numa Casablanca incubator. A dedicated incubation area (Open Lab Inwi) and other programs of training and raising awareness (Datacity) were launched on this occasion. On the occasion of the COP22 that took place in Morocco by the end of 2016, Inwi partnered with Moroccan Game Developers (MGD) to plan

78-464: A contest that promotes the creation of Moroccan video games. Maroc Telecom Maroc Telecom ( Acronym : IAM , Arabic : اتصالات المغرب ) 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. The company is listed on both

104-463: A current or former PTT, the PTT was also responsible for the manufacture and standardisation of telephone equipment. Often the presence of a single PTT in a country implied a single monolithic approach to the distribution of information in that country, which as an advantage permitted efficient deployment of a single national standard for each topic instead of ongoing debate about competing ideas, but which as

130-528: A disadvantage typically stifled alternative ideas from emerging once a legacy implementation had been widely deployed. In North America, instead of a PTT there was the private monopoly Bell System (for the US )/ Bell Canada (dominant ILEC in Ontario , Quebec and (historically) parts of what is now Nunavut ; competes with other fixed-line carriers in the rest of Canada ) responsible for telecommunications and

156-1559: A few, such as Posta ve Telgraf Teşkilatı of Turkey and Myanma Posts and Telecommunications of Myanmar , continue to remain wholly government-owned. In many of said privatisations, the privatised corporation was completely renamed, such as KPN in the Netherlands , Orange S.A. in France (+ Orange Polska in Poland ), BT Group in the United Kingdom , Eir in the Republic of Ireland , Swisscom in Switzerland , Telstra in Australia , Spark in New Zealand , Proximus Group in Belgium , A1 Telekom Austria Group in Austria , TDC Group in Denmark , Telia Company in Sweden and Finland , Telenor in Norway , Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan and Singtel in Singapore ; whereas in others,

182-512: A monopoly on fixed-line telecoms, with the separate state-owned Correos de España responsible for mail delivery. Portugal , until 1968, had a mixture, with a private telecom operator in Lisbon and Porto (named APT – Anglo-Portuguese Telephone Company ) another private company in charge of connections with and between colonies and with the rest of the world (CPRM – Companhia Portuguesa de Rádio Marconi ) and Correios, Telefones e Telégrafos ,

208-479: A public company, as the PTT agency and owner of the telephone system in the rest of the country (including the former colonies ); that year, APT was nationalised and became Telefones de Lisboa e Porto (TLP). CTT still controls postal services in Portugal, while Telecom Portugal was spun out in 1992 and later merged into Portugal Telecom in 1994 (with CPRM becoming a subsidiary and later being absorbed in 2002); it

234-459: A separate federally run US Postal Service / Canada Post for mail delivery. Japan also had a rather similar structure as North America with the formerly-state-owned Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT; privatised in 1985) having a monopoly on fixed-line telecoms, with the separate government-run but publicly-traded Japan Post responsible for mail delivery; as did Spain with Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España (CTNE; privatised in 1997) having

260-526: Is one of the most profitable phone operators in Africa with a revenue of 2.2 billion euros during the first 9 months of 2012. Maroc Telecom launched 4G+ in Morocco on July 13, 2015. Customer support does only propose contacting by phone to a special number and not via a contact form like most of telecommunication companies. On June 1, 2006, IAM launched the IPTV package deployed by Huawei Technology via

286-636: The ADSL line. The service was the first of its kind in Africa and the Middle East . In July 2006, Maroc Telecom signed with the French telecommunications equipment company Alcatel a contract for a submarine communications cable connection between Morocco and France. Maroc Telecom's aim is to upgrade the capacity of its services (i.e. broadband services, call centers ). The project cost €26 million and

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312-620: The ANRT , Inwi customers were offered the possibility to customize their phone number. With the Bayn brand, Inwi offers a restricted mobility offer on the CDMA network. Inwi offers Internet access for professionals via broadband ADSL and fiber optics as well as 3G and 4G coverage for individuals. In June 2016, the brand holds 25.15% of the market's share, in second position behind Maroc Telecom. It holds more than 17 million internet subscribers. Born from

338-566: The Casablanca Stock Exchange and Euronext Paris . The origin of a Moroccan telecommunications project dates back to 1891, when Sultan Hassan I created the first Moroccan postal service. In 1913, the Moroccan Postal Telephone and Telegraph was established before a Dahir (King's decree ) related to the monopoly of the state of Telegraphy and Telephony was published. In 1967, Morocco placed

364-624: The Inwi brand. The Brand had the best rating according to the criteria set by the ARNT (Coverage commitment, quality of service and business plan for the deployment of high and very high speed broadband in Morocco). The decision of ARNT to block the VoIP provoked a campaign of online protests against various Moroccan operators, including Inwi, in 2016. The company reacted by withdrawing from the sponsorship of

390-651: The Maroc Web Awards and started the development of an application to use VoIP services. In September 2016, Inwi was the first operator to offer VoLTE (Voice Over LTE) technology to its 4G subscribers. Also in 2016, Inwi was awarded the Moroccan Digital Awards, which recognizes the best companies that stand out in the digital world, for its social initiative "Dir Iddik", a platform linking the associative world with volunteers. More than 50,000 people have registered since then. In 2020, Inwi became

416-557: The alliance between Wana and the French company "Phone Systems & Network" in 2007, Bladiphone offers a communication service between France and Morocco through VoIP technology. In 2017 and in partnership with the brand WanaOne, the operator developed a box to allow a reinforced access to Internet and telephone for companies. As of 2016, the operator proposed a professional service Cloud called "Business Digital Workplace". This service includes: Starting from October 2016, Inwi developed

442-519: The country with speeds up to 200 Mbits/s. It consists of the provision of public phones throughout Morocco. The fixed park reaches 1.6 million lines. Mobile services are provided via a GSM network. Maroc Telecom counted 33 million customers at the end of October 2012. Its network covers 97% of the Moroccan population . It also has 12.5 million customers in Mali, Gabon, Burkina Faso and Mauritania. It

468-643: The first underwater cable between Tetouan , Morocco, and Perpignan , France, through the Mediterranean . A few years later, in 1970, a transmission via Intelsat was introduced. The Telex service was then automated in 1971 just before installing a digital center in Fes . Due to the advancement of telecommunications around the globe, Morocco decided to create a new entity called the Office National des Postes et Télécommunications (ONPT) to manage

494-492: The industry. ONPT was responsible of the introduction of Analog Mobile Radiotelephony in 1987. Later on, in 1992, Morocco set up the first underwater optical fiber cable . Two years later, a GSM service was operational. The Internet was introduced in Morocco by ONPT in 1995. After the publication of a telecommunications' decree, Maroc Telecom (IAM) was eventually founded in 1998. The acronym IAM comes from its original Arabic name Ittisalat Al Maghrib . The name "Maroc Telecom"

520-929: The name of the privatised corporation has been only slightly modified, such as Telkom Indonesia in Indonesia , Telekom Malaysia in Malaysia , Deutsche Telekom in Germany (+ Hrvatski Telekom in Croatia and Telekom Romania Mobile in Romania ), Kosovo Telecom in Kosovo , KT in South Korea , Post Luxembourg in Luxembourg and Síminn in Iceland . In countries that had a PTT unit of government, typically

546-477: The official sponsor of the Moroccan 1st and 2nd division professional football championship. Thus, the first division championship will be called in 2020–2021 "Botola Inwi 1". In 2023, Inwi expands collaboration with Subex to utilize aI-driven fraud management and business assurance on HyperSense platform. The operator holds 24.20% of the entire mobile phone flee, in 2016. Following the opening of 07 numbers by

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572-703: The reference shareholder of Maroc Connect. In 2006, Maroc Connect won the third 3G license in Morocco. In 2007, Maroc Connect became Wana, the third operator for home telephones and 3G internet. In 2009, Wana wins the third GSM license in Morocco under its Inwi brand. In February, the Kuwaiti consortium Zain/Alajial takes control of 31% of Inwi's capital. A year after its launch, Inwi reported five million customers in February 2010 and 13.5% of market shares in December 2010. In March 2015, Wana obtained its 4G license for

598-454: The total shares owned by Vivendi to 53%. In 2006, the company reported a turnover of $ 2.67 bn. The custom base was established at 1.27m lines for the landline and at 391,000 lines for the ADSL. In July 2013, it was announced that the firm’s majority owner, Vivendi , would sell its 53% stake in the firm to Etisalat for around $ 4.2 billion. In 2016, Maroc Telecom introduced fiber optics to

624-405: The vast majority of forms of distribution of information fell under the auspices of the PTT, whether that be the delivery of printed publications and individual letters in the postal mail, the transmission of telephonic audio, or the transmission of telegraphic on-off signals, and in some countries, the broadcast of one-way (audio) radio and (audio-video) television signals . In many countries with

650-548: Was adopted later for better international recognizability. On 20 February 2001, the Moroccan government sold 35% of Maroc Telecom's shares to French mass media company Vivendi . The transaction amounted to 23 Billion dirhams . On 4 January 2005 Vivendi acquired an additional 16% for 12.4 billion dirhams raising its participation to 51%. In October 2007, the CDG ceded, via its subsidiary Filpar Holding , 2% of Maroc Telecom to Vivendi in exchange of 0.6% of Vivendi's shares, putting

676-615: Was named "Atlas Offshore". In December 2006, IAM invested in Burkina Faso ’s ONATEL , acquiring 51% of its capital. Postal Telephone and Telegraph A postal, telegraph, and telephone service (or PTT ) is a government agency responsible for postal mail , telegraph , and telephone services. Such monopolies existed in many countries, though not in North America , Japan or Spain . Many PTTs have been partially or completely privatised in recent years, though

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