VOL. XLI

No. 06

9-February-1998

MOROCCO

Etisalat Signs Satellite Deal With Morocco

Etisalat, the UAE telecommunications group, announced that it hassigned a deal to set up a satellite mobile telephone system to provide 200,000 lines inMorocco. The deal also includes an undisclosed investment on the part of the Moroccantelecoms monopoly ONPT in the capital of Al-Thuraya, the satellite company established byEtisalat to provide GSM mobile communications to the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and...