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2020
ANRT fines Maroc Telecom for anti-competitive practices
Fine or penalty
Morocco’s telecommunications regulator, ANRT, fined Maroc Telecom MAD 3.3 billion for unfair competition. ANRT said Maroc Telecom had engaged in conduct that prevented and delayed competitors’ access to local-loop unbundling and the landline market; the fine followed a complaint by competitor Inwi.
Stated objective. To remedy the observed behavior and allow competition to develop in the landline and broadband sector.
Source excerpt
The sanction of an unprecedented scale aims to “remedy the behavior observed and to allow the development of competition in the sector of landline and broadband.”
Rabat – The National Agency for Telecommunications Regulation (ANRT) has fined Morocco’s leading telecommunication company, Maroc Telecom (IAM), MAD 3.3 billion (around €312 million) for “unfair competition.”
The regulation agency submitted the decision on January 17, after years of investigation following a complaint submitted by IAM’s competitor Inwi in December 2016.