Moroccan telecoms regulator ANRT’s latest annual report (Agence National de Réglementation des Télécommunications) found telecommunication service prices dropped by 34% between 2008 to 2011.

“Mobile service prices, including pre- and post-paid, came down by nearly 37% over four years, following a series of successive price cuts, notably since 2010,” the report revealed.

The country’s users saw a “perennial double and triple top-up credits from some operators, the alignment of off-net prices to on-net prices, per-second billing and lower international call tariffs”.

ANRT reported fixed voice calls prices dropped by 24% during this period, “due to a regular fall in international tariffs, higher top-up bonuses on capped services, and the offers of new generation fixed network operators”.

ADSL broadband prices dropped by 56% as bandwidth capacity increased.

“The business broadband segment saw its prices fall by 56% and the business fixed voice segment by around 45% over the same period.”

Joseph Mayton