TLC TURNOVER PROVIDES 7% OF MOROCCO'S GDP, FIGURES
(ANSAmed) - SKHIRAT (Morocco), JUNE 24 - The turnover of
telecommunications stood in 2007 at USD 4 billion up from USD
1.1 billion in 1999, to provide 7% of Moroccòs GDP, Map news
agency reports.
This contribution is yet expected to rise to 10% in 2012,
according to official figures released at a study day on the
sidelines of the 10th anniversary of the agency of telecom
regulation (ANRT).
The sector has helped create some 37,000 direct jobs and
around 120,000 indirect ones, and represents half of the foreign
direct investments during the last five years, Prime Minister,
Abbas El Fassi said at the opening of the study day.
As part of the plan to boost the sector, El Fassi said, the
government's priorities include implementing the digital
development of the territory, and reducing the digital gap.
He stressed the need to develop e-contents in order to
facilitate communication between the citizens in underprivileged
regions and neighborhoods, improve the quality of proximity
services.
Morocco is aiming to make of ICTs a pillar of the country's
economy, and a source of productivity, and to erect the north
African country as a regional technology hub. (ANSAmed).
2008-06-24 17:49