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Article

7 Apr 2012

Author:
mideastposts.com

Internet ‘Disaster’: A Return to Morocco’s Old Ways

Maroc Telecom went all the way to pull the plug on the internet’s most popular apps and along the way also pulled the plug on Moroccans’ sole affordable means of communication with its large immigrant population who bring yearly billions of dollars in hard currency to the needy country...With a legal vacuum that leaves Moroccan consumers open to abuses, thousands of Moroccans turned to Maroc Telecom’s “fan page” to vent their frustrations that see the internet as the window to cultural and economic freedom that breaks with “Morocco’s old ways” embodied in Maroc Telecom’s old ways.