Catalog · updated 24 September 2026
Every note, in one index
Eight pieces, each written to be read alone. The first date is publication. The second is the last time the text itself changed. Reading times are a guide to length, not a target.
If the problem is a person you cannot reach, start with staying in touch and calls and messages. The second of those has the dialling table: +212, the dropped zero, and 00 when you are calling out of Morocco.
If the problem is a phone that looks connected and still will not load, start with mobile internet, then where data goes. Check the icon for Wi-Fi versus cellular before you read either one.
If you are about to change operator or buy a line, read how a network is put together for the RIO and the July 2025 licence figures, and SIM and eSIM before you delete a profile or guess a PUK.
Place comes last for a reason. Coverage and Wi-Fi are about rooms, medinas, trains, and desert roads. They are not a ranking of the three licensees, Itissalat Al-Maghrib, Médi Telecom, and Wana Corporate.
Jump: Networks · Everyday use · People · Places
Networks
The licensed operators, what sits between a handset and another phone, the July 2025 5G awards, the RIO used for portability, and the difference between a PIN, a PUK, and an eSIM profile.
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How a mobile network is put together
How a call actually crosses a Moroccan mobile network, who holds the three licences, what the 25 July 2025 5G awards did and did not promise, and how the 12-character RIO works if you keep your number.
20 min
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SIM cards and eSIM, in plain language
PIN, PUK, and RIO are three different codes. This note separates them, then covers locked handsets, eSIM deletion, dual lines, and the identity document a shop actually asks to see.
18 min
Everyday use
How a normal day spends data, how to read the counter on the phone, and how to tell a home router, a mobile hotspot, and a café network apart before blaming the wrong one.
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Mobile internet, on an ordinary day
A Casablanca day broken into tasks: which icon you are really on, what a map costs compared with a video call, and the background sync that empties an allowance while the phone sits in a pocket.
18 min
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Wi-Fi, home internet, and the café network
Fibre or copper into the building, Wi-Fi across the flat, a phone hotspot when that fails, and a café network you should not treat as a private line. How to tell which one the laptop is using.
17 min
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A practical way to see where data goes
Where iOS and Android hide the counter, which apps spend data with no tap from you, and a rough ladder of tasks that you must check against your own phone rather than treat as a bill.
16 min
People
Dialling +212 correctly, choosing between a voice call, an SMS, and a chat app, and keeping a weekly call with family after Morocco’s return to GMT on 20 September 2026.
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Staying close when the miles are real
A written backup plan for two households: channels, a missed-call script, international numbers, and the real offset between Casablanca, London, and Paris after the return to GMT on 20 September 2026.
18 min
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Calls, texts, and messages that travel as data
When a voice call, an SMS, and a chat app take different paths, with worked examples of +212 dialling, Wi-Fi calling, and the text that should still go out when a video call will not.
17 min
Places
Coastal cities, medina stone, apartment stairwells, the Atlas, trains, and desert roads. A bar of signal is a hint about one radio hop, not a description of the country.
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Reading coverage without trusting a single bar
Why a bar count misleads in a Casablanca tower, a Fes riad, an Atlas switchback, and on the desert road, and a repeatable test that separates the room from the subscription.
18 min
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