Morocco: ANRT fines Maroc Telecom USD238m for failing to comply with competition rules
July 31st 2022
Maroc Telecom Group (IAM) has been fined MAD2.45 billion (USD238 million) by the National Agency of Telecommunications Regulation (Agence Nationale de Reglementation de Telecom, ANRT) for failing to comply with the agency’s fair competition rules. ANRT said the fine is the culmination of an accumulative penalty that it imposed on IAM back in January 2020; ANRT set a fine of MAD4.1 million for every day that IAM failed to comply with the agency’s fair competition instructions. Maroc Telecom Group has 30 days to appeal the USD238 million cumulative fine in court.
As previously reported by TeleGeography’s CommsUpdate, in January 2020 the ANRT Management Committee concluded that Maroc Telecom’s actions had prevented and delayed its competitors from accessing LLU and the fixed broadband market since 2013, following an in-depth examination of the various elements of the investigation report, which commenced in May 2017. The committee judged that the behaviour constituted an abuse of dominant position, which is prohibited by the provisions of Article 7 of Law No.104-12 and is liable to a financial penalty of MAD3.3 billion, entirely paid to the Treasury.
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