Morocco's Phone Operator Counts 3.7 Mln Subscribers to Mobile Phone

Maroc-Telecom, Morocco's phone operator, said it counted 3.7 million subscribers to the mobile phone in 2001, capturing 71 percent of the market, Abdeslam Ahizoune, Maroc-Telecom President, said.

The company lost 200,000 fixed phone subscribers in 2000 and 2001, Ahizoune said in an interview with L'Economiste daily.

Meditel, a private mobile phone operator in Morocco, has 1.7 million clients and currently accounts for 38 percent of the Moroccan market, Meditel director-general, Ramon Enciso, told the same daily.