Maroc Telecom’s customer base increases by 3,3% at the end of September

Maroc Telecom Group’s customer base recorded an increase of 3.3% at the end of September compared to the same period in 2020, with nearly 73 million customers, according to the group’s results for September.

This change is mainly due to the increase in the customer base in the subsidiaries (+ 4.2%), explained the group.

The Mobile network service recorded an increase of 1.6% over one year to reach more than 20 million customers drawn by both the Prepaid (+ 1.7%) and Postpaid fleet (+ 0.9%) thanks to an upturn in activity noticed this quarter after the reopening of borders, noted the telecommunications group in its report.

The wired networks remain almost stable over one year (-0.4%), at nearly 2 million lines, noted the Group, adding that the broadband network grew by 1.8%, to reach 1, 7 million subscribers driven by record fiber optic line installations (+ 53%).

Internationally, the mobile network service reached 48,546,000 customers in total, including 10,259,000 customers in Burkina Faso, followed by 9,877,000 customers from Côte d’Ivoire, 8,011,000 customers in Mali, 4,995. 000 customers in Benin, 4,919,000 customers in Chad, 3,059,000 customers in Niger, 2,847,000 customers in Togo, 2,753,000 customers in Mauritania, 1,605,000 customers in Gabon, and the Central African Republic with a total of 221,000 customers.

As for the Fixed network, it totaled 347,000 subscribers, including 184,000 subscribers in Mali, followed by 76,000 subscribers in Burkina Faso, 58,000 subscribers in Mauritania, 30,000 subscribers in Gabon, while the fixed broadband network recorded 140,000 customers.

Recently, Speedtest Intelligence revealed Maroc Telecom was the fastest mobile operator among top providers in Morocco in the third quarter of this year with a speedcore of 56.99 on modern chipsets, according to a recent classification published by Ookla company for September.