Mauritius Telecom

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Mauritius Telecom Ltd
Industry Telecommunications
Predecessor
  • Overseas Telecommunications Services Ltd
  • Mauritius Telecommunication Services Ltd
Founded1992;33 years ago (1992)
Headquarters Port Louis, Mauritius
Area served
Nationwide
Key people
Kapildeo Reesaul (CEO) - 01 August 2022
Michel Degland (Deputy CEO)
Products
  • Fixed Line Services
  • Fibre Broadband & TV
  • Mobile Services
  • Mobile Money
RevenueIncrease2.svg MUR 12.7 billion (2023)
Total assets Increase2.svg MUR 25.1 billion (2023) [1]
Number of employees
2,338
Subsidiaries
  • Cellplus Mobile Communications Ltd,
  • Telecom Plus Ltd,
  • Teleforce Ltd,
  • Call Services Ltd,
  • MT Properties Ltd,
  • Mauritius Telecom Foundation,
  • MT International Ventures PCC,
  • MT Services Ltd
Website www.telecom.mu

Mauritius Telecom (MT) is a telecommunications company in Mauritius, a small republic in the Indian Ocean. The company had about 392,000 fixed line customers, 969,000 Mobile customers, 404,000 fibre ready homes, 178,000 iptv customers, 255,000 Broadband Internet customers (My.T ADSL) as at December 2019.

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History

Mauritius Telecom was founded in July 1992 by a merger between the former Overseas Telecommunications Services Ltd and Mauritius Telecommunication Services Ltd. As from that date, Mauritius Telecom became the major provider of voice, mobile, Internet and data communication services in Mauritius.

In 1996, Cellplus Mobile Communications Ltd, a Mobile Network Operator and a fully owned subsidiary of Mauritius Telecom launched the GSM network in Mauritius and later during the same year Telecom Plus Ltd, another fully owned subsidiary of Mauritius Telecom as from 2006, launched a dial-up Internet access service.

In November 2000, France Telecom (now Orange S.A.) became the majority shareholder of Mauritius Telecom by acquiring 40% of its shares. Following the partnership with France Telecom, Telecom Plus Ltd launched Broadband Internet Access in 2002 under the Wanadoo brand.

The two companies launched in June 2006 their IPTV services branded as My.T which enabled Mauritius to become among the first countries in the world to launch IPTV services.

On 17 April 2008, Mauritius Telecom re-branded its mobile and internet services as Orange. Cellplus Prepaid and Post Paid were rebranded as Orange Prepay and Post Pay. Telecom Plus dial-up internet access and Wanadoo ADSL as Orange Dial-Up and Orange ADSL.

In 2013, Mauritius Telecom introduced fibre optic broadband. In May 2015, Mauritius Telecom announced that as from 1 June 2015, all its 850,000 Orange mobile customers would receive free unlimited access to Facebook.

After a 10-year branding agreement with Orange came to an end in September 2017. All Mauritius Telecom products were re-branded under the My.T brand on 9 November 2017. [2]

Shareholders

ShareholdersHolding Structure (%)
RIMCOM Ltd40%
Government of Mauritius 33.49%
SBM Holdings Ltd19%
National Pensions Fund6.55%
Employees of Mauritius Telecom0.96%
Total100.00

Subsidiaries

Mauritius Telecom owns the following companies:

The my.t brand

Mauritius Telecom portfolio of fixed, mobile, broadband and IPTV services is  consolidated under one single umbrella brand: my.t.

References

  1. "2023 Annual Report" (PDF). Mauritius Telecom. Retrieved 2013-08-06.
  2. Lepoigneur, Florian (9 November 2017). "Téléphonie: Orange Maurice devient MyT Mobile". lexpress.mu. Retrieved 16 April 2018.