Total revenue gained 4% to 9.3 billion dirhams as the company's customer base grew 11.3% to 69 million.

Maroc Telecom, which is listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange and Euronext Paris, is 53% controlled by the UAE?s Etisalat, with the Moroccan state owning 22%.

It operates subsidiaries in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Chad, Togo and the Central African Republic.

(Reporting by Ahmed Eljechtimi; Editing by David Goodman)