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Market Intelligence Reports provide an invaluable mix of vital market data and background information, including telecoms regulation. Morocco's telecommunications market has effectively been completely liberalised; this process had begun in 1996 when a new telecommunications law was drafted, which provided for the dissolution of the traditional state regulator and postal and telecommunications services body and its replacement with an independent regulator and separate profit-making commercial concerns dealing with the postal and telecommunications businesses. Itissalat al Maghrib (trading as Maroc Telecom) became the commercial organisation dealing with telecommunications. In the fixed-line market, Maroc Telecom maintains a de facto monopoly, although new fixed-line network licences were tendered in 2005 (with only limited success) and the sector has already been infiltrated to a limited extent by cellular operator Médi Télécom (Méditel) and global mobile personal communications service (GMPCS) operator Globalstar North Africa. Maroc Telecom claims to have had a 90% share of Morocco's public telephony market at the end of 2006 (based on the number of lines in service), though this has changed substantially in 2007 following the launch of a fixed wireless offering, dubbed Bayn, by fixed-line operator and ISP, Wana (formerly known as Maroc Connect). In the cellular market, Maroc Telecom currently competes with Méditel. Both companies operate nationwide GSM/GPRS networks and successfully bid for third-generation (3G) mobile licences in 2006. A third 3G licence was awarded to Wana at the same time, and that company is likely to closely-integrate its WiMAX-based fixed wireless access network with its forthcoming 3G offering. An additional GSM licence may not be made available until 2008 but, given the early phenomenal success of Wana/Bayn's fixed wireless offering, this may already be a moot point. Based on data supplied by the national regulatory authority, Maroc Telecom had an approximate 66.9% share of the Moroccan cellular market as of September 2007 (this share would be slightly higher if the opeators' own data were used, which appear to include an unknown number of 'inactive' customers). In the data communications market, Maroc Telecom competes mainly with ISPs such as Wana, very small aperture terminal (VSAT) network operators, international operators such as Orange Business Services (formerly Equant), and private data networks operated by large companies. In the Internet market, Maroc Telecom competes mainly with France Telecom-affiliated Wana. In terms of total subscribers, Maroc Telecom had an 72% share of the narrowband Internet market at the end of 2006 and 98% of the broadband market.
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