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However, following the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ) at the WTO, the 1988 Telecommunications Act was replaced with by the Telecommunications Act of 1998 which provided the legal framework to enable the emergence of a free and democratised telecommunications market on the island.

This act also created the Mauritius Telecommunications Authority ( MTA ) as a regulatory body for the telecommunications sector.