This paper engages in a materialist critique of Orientalist infrastructure in Morocco, considering its relationship to modes of writing, mobility, and sovereignty that both enable and disable contemporary communication networks. In particular, I will explore how mobile telecommunications condition the way that users of cell phones occupy local space, even as these technologies are underwritten by global finance capital. Such networks trace and retrace grids established by Orientalist actors (the post office, out of which Maroc Telecom emerged, appeared in 1913, in the second year of the French Protectorate). The palimpsest of infrastructures in Morocco demonstrates how the knowledge about a place that Orientalism produced also engineered ways of distributing this knowledge that both left tangible traces in that place and preordained ways of using it. The term “nomad telephony” tests Deleuze & Guattari’s concept of nomadology while also cutting sharply against their theorization’s anthropological assumptions. This paper also examines unorthodox uses of mobile technology in a variety of contexts, from Amazigh shepherds in the High Atlas mountains linked through cell phones, to literary effects producing a détournement of both technological and literary networks. Critical interlocutors include RA Judy, Tarek El-Ariss, and Edward Said.