Who owns Mauritel?
Mauritel is not wholly owned by any single company recorded here: Maroc Telecom (Morocco, EPA: IAM) holds a 41.2% stake.[1] Maroc Telecom acquired 51.5% of the voting rights on 12 April 2001. Mauritel is held through Compagnie Mauritanienne de Communications (CMC), 80% owned by Maroc Telecom, so its economic interest is 41.2%. Maroc Telecom has consolidated Mauritel in full since 1 July 2004.
Evidence: Maroc Telecom — Rapport financier annuel 2025, Itissalat Al-Maghrib (Maroc Telecom) SA. Last checked .
Key facts
- Largest stakeholder
- Itissalat Al-Maghrib SA (41.2% stake) reported
- Headquarters
- 🇲🇦 Morocco, Rabat
- Origin
- 🇲🇷 Mauritania, Nouakchott · browse countries
- Category
- Telecom › Mobile › Mobile carriers
- Parent ticker
- EPA: IAM
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Mauritel
Mauritel is Mauritania's historic telecoms operator, formed by merging the fixed-line Mauritel SA with Mauritel Mobile, and it runs both fixed and mobile networks. Maroc Telecom acquired 51.5% of its voting rights on 12 April 2001 and holds them through a Mauritanian holding company it owns 80% of. Mauritel had 2.66 million mobile customers at the end of 2025, 6.1% more than a year earlier, and its fixed broadband base grew 52% to 59,000.
Ownership timeline of Mauritel
Where Mauritel sits in Maroc Telecom
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- Gabon Telecom (51%)
- Maroc Telecom
- Moov Africa
- Moov Africa Côte d'Ivoire (85%)
- Onatel (61%)
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Other brands owned by Maroc Telecom
Maroc Telecom controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in telecom.
Also in telecom
Other brands in mobile carriers, and who owns them
Maroc Telecom has more brands in mobile carriers on Brandtree than any other owner: 5 of 25.
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|---|---|---|
| Safaricom | Vodafone | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| DIGI Portugal | Digi | 🇷🇴 Romania |
| C&W | Liberty Latin America | 🇧🇲 Bermuda |
| Tigo | Millicom | 🇱🇺 Luxembourg |
| by.U | Telkom Indonesia | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| One NZ | Infratil | 🇳🇿 New Zealand |
| NTT DOCOMO | NTT | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Smart | PLDT | 🇵🇭 Philippines |
About the owner: Maroc Telecom
Maroc Telecom is a publicly listed company headquartered in Rabat, Morocco, founded in 1998.
Maroc Telecom is Morocco's fixed, mobile and internet operator, created on 26 February 1998 when the state split up its post and telecoms office, the ONPT. It is listed in both Casablanca and Paris. Its reference shareholders are SPT, a Moroccan company controlled by Etisalat, with 53%, and the Kingdom of Morocco with 22%. Outside Morocco it runs ten operators under the Moov Africa brand. At the end of 2025 the group had nearly 77 million customers, and it reported 36.7 billion dirhams of revenue, with the African subsidiaries now bringing in slightly more than Morocco.
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Frequently asked questions
Who owns Mauritel?
No single company recorded here owns Mauritel outright. Maroc Telecom holds a 41.2% stake.
Does Maroc Telecom control Mauritel?
Not on the shareholding alone: a 41.2% holding is not a majority. Maroc Telecom acquired 51.5% of the voting rights on 12 April 2001. Mauritel is held through Compagnie Mauritanienne de Communications (CMC), 80% owned by Maroc Telecom, so its economic interest is 41.2%. Maroc Telecom has consolidated Mauritel in full since 1 July 2004.
Where did Mauritel come from?
Mauritel originated in Mauritania, in Nouakchott.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Maroc Telecom — Rapport financier annuel 2025 — Itissalat Al-Maghrib (Maroc Telecom) SA, Annual report; retrieved 27 October 2026.
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