Morocco vies for world telecom body top post
Morocco, Local, 4/27/2001

Morocco has officially announced its candidacy for the top post of the International Telecommunications via Satellite Organization (ITSO).

The announcement was made Thursday in Washington by Moroccan ambassador to the USA, Abdellah El Maaroufi, at the 26th general assembly of Intelsat, which set up ITSO last year. Intelsat, set up in 1965, musters 144 member countries.

Ahmed Toumi, a telecom expert, will run for the post in the name of Morocco.

In his address, the Moroccan diplomat highlighted the keen interest Morocco grants to the modernization and development of its telecom sector.

Providing data on Morocco's telecom sector, El Maarouf said the country counted 1.5 million phone (fixed and mobile) subscribers in 1998, on the eve of the sector's liberalization. The figure jumped to 5 million in March 2001. Subscribers to digital cellular services number 3.5 million, he said.

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