Moroccan regulator ANRT said that its project to improve number portability should bear fruit from the end of 2019, when the process will become entirely automated. A new central database is currently being implemented and the country's three main network operators are collaborating with an administrator (Sirgad-Mediafon-Mediafon Data Pro), appointed last year as part of the project. Benefiting both fixed and mobile customers, the automation will help reduce the time required to port numbers.
The project was instigated by a decision issued by the ANRT in October 2015. According to the regulator's most recent annual report, the country saw the number of successful requests for mobile number portability increase to nearly 383,000 in 2017, from around 287,850 in 2016.