Morocco counts two million mobile phones users and 100,000 internet surfers

Morocco counts two million mobile phone users and an estimated 100,000 Internet surfers, said Nasri Hajji, Secretary of state for posts and Information and Telecoms technologies. Although he conceded, in an interview with Moroccan "Liberation" daily, this is still too little, he pointed out "we are starting to grow," as networks are being established and will reach totally maturity by 2010 or 2015.

He added that Morocco is targeting to reach the emerging countries' phone penetration rate of 30%.

He added that the Moroccan telecommunications network is fully digitized with a rate exceeding that of several developed countries.