be merged into this article . discuss proposed since december 2015 . mauritius telecom industry telecommunications predecessor overseas telecommunications services ltd mauritius telecommunication services ltd founded 1992 headquarters port louis mauritius key people sherry singh ceo nathalie clere coo deputy ceo products telephone broadband iptv mobile revenue mur 8.5 billion 2013 total assets mur 15.805 billion 2012 1 number of employees 2 170 subsidiaries call services ltd csl cellplus mobile communications ltd mauritius telecom foundation mauritius telecom international ventures ltd mt properties ltd mt services ltd mts telecom plus ltd teleservices mauritius 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 357 000 telephone customers 804 000 mobile customers and 162 000 broadband internet customers orange adsl and my.t adsl as at june 2014 . contents 1 history 2 shareholders 3 tv channels 4 subsidiaries 5 external links 6 references history edit mauritius telecom was founded in july 1992 by a merger kreshnee & hemanjali 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 owner of mauritius telecom by acquiring 40 % of its shares . following the partnership with france telecom telecom plus ltd launched broadband internet access in 2002 . 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 . as from 17 april 2008 mauritius telecom re branded its mobile and internet services as orange . cellplus prepaid and post paid offers are now known as orange prepay and post pay offers and telecom plus dial up internet access and wanadoo adsl offers are now known as orange dial up and orange adsl . in 2013 mauritius telecom introduced fiber optic communication technology which enables its customers to enjoy higher internet speed allowing them to browse quickly . in may 2015 mauritius telecom announced that as from 1 june 2015 all its 850 000 orange mobile customers will receive free unlimited access to facebook . shareholders edit the main shareholders of mauritius telecom are mauritius telecom stock ownership rank name of owner percentage ownership 1 orange s.a. 40 2 government of mauritius 33.45 3 sbm investments managers ltd 19 4 national pensions fund 6.55 5 employees of mauritius telecom 1 total 100.00 tv channels edit the following channels are available on the iptv service a24 news channel ab1 ab 3 ab moteurs action al jazeera english amc antenne reunion ary digital b4u movies bbc world news bhojpuri channel bindass bindass play bloomberg tv boing france boomerang cctv 4 cctv 9 cctv f cctv news cine 12 clubbing tv cnbc europe cnn international colors tv dd podhigai dd sahyadri dd saptagiri dw tv 1ere e eurosport news fashion one fox fox crime fox sports english fox sports fran ais fox sports 2 france o france 2 france 3 france 4 france 5 france 24 fx golf channel gulli india today jaya tv lci lfc tv life ok m tunes hd mangas mbc 1 mbc 2 mbc 3 mbc 4 mbc 16 urdu mcm motors tv mtv india my.t vod myzen tv nat geo gold nat geo wild national geographic channel ndtv 24x7 ndtv good times ndtv profit nhk world tv ocs max hd ocs city ocs choc ocs geant ocs go rishtey rfm tv rtl9 sabc news international science & vie tv senn kreol sports 11 star gold star plus star vijay tcm cinema tf1 hd tmc trek tv breizh utv movies ushua a tv voyage zoom subsidiaries edit mauritius telecom owns the following companies call services ltd csl a telemarketing company cellplus mobile communications ltd a cellular phone service provider mauritius telecom foundation mauritius telecom international ventures ltd mt properties ltd mt services ltd mts telecom plus ltd an internet service provider teleservices mauritius ltd a telephone directory company external links edit official website references edit financial highlights . mauritius telecom . retrieved 2013 08 06 . v t e orange s.a. subsidiaries armenia belgium botswana cameroon central african republic democratic republic of the congo egypt france guinea guinea bissau ivory coast luxembourg madagascar mali moldova niger poland r union romania slovakia spain tunisia uganda globecast world tv orange business services india orange marine shareholdings bt group 4 % getesa 40 % jordan telecom group 51 % jordan telecom orange jordan korek telecom 20 % mauritius telecom 40 % m ditel 40 % sonatel 42 % telecom vanuatu limited 50 % telkom kenya 70 % products and services libon corporate directors st phane richard chairman and ceo retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mauritius telecom & oldid 734873950 categories companies of mauritiustelecommunications companies of africacommunications in mauritiusorange s.a.hidden categories articles to be merged from december 2015all articles to be merged navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as 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