Morocco counted roughly 3.22 million users of fifth-generation (5G) internet by the end of this past March, just months after the technology launched in November of last year.
In an updated quarterly bulletin, the National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (ANRT) reported that revenue in the telecom market grew by 2.89% in the first quarter of 2026 compared with the same period in 2025.
Mobile phone subscriptions reached 57.06 million over the period, pushing the mobile penetration rate to 154.93%. Outgoing mobile call traffic, however, fell to 8.45 billion minutes in the first quarter, a drop of 18.79% from the same stretch a year earlier. Text messaging followed a similar path, with SMS volumes touching 340 million messages in the first three months of the year, down 9.12% year on year.
Internet subscriptions told a brighter story, climbing to 41.08 million and lifting the internet penetration rate to 111.54%. That figure marked an annual increase of 3.05%, or an additional 1.21 million subscriptions compared with the end of March 2025.
Fourth-generation (4G) service continued to draw subscribers, gathering some 33.07 million of the 38.10 million mobile internet users by the end of March, for annual growth of about 2.91%.
The agency also reported roughly 200,000 successful fixed-line number transfers through the end of March 2026, up 7.64% from the same period the previous year. Mobile number portability exceeded 1.64 million numbers over the early months of the year, a rise of 9.42% year on year. The bulletin further noted that more than 10,302 new domain names were registered during the first quarter, compared with around 9,240 in the same period of 2025.
