Does the Information Superhighway Run Thru Morocco?

On our first day in Morocco we noticed another startling difference with the developing nations of Asia - internet access in Morocco is almost non-existent. We saw several internet cafes, but they only had a few older computers and they were tied up all day by young boys playing computer games.

In Asia, internet cafes with high speed access are on virtually every street corner. People of all ages use computers in Asia and they access the internet for email, blogging, news, IM, Skype calls, and education. I think there is a huge education and cultural gap in Morocco.

Perhaps we'll have better access to the internet at some of the hotels on our bicycle tour, but for now, it's apparent why the economy here still operates the way it did a hundred years ago. I imagine that increasing tourism from Europe, a construction boom, and an influx of young people from rural areas to the cities will pressure Maroc Telecom to provide faster, less expensive, and more pervasive internet access.