Communications in Malawi
Communications in Malawi includes the country's postal, telephone, television, radio and internet services.
Post[]
Malawi Posts Corporation provides the national postal service in Malawi and runs the post offices throughout the country. Ten other postal services providers operate in Malawi, including DHL, FedEx.[1]
Postal services in Malawi are regulated by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA).[2][3]
Telephone[]
Mobile telephones are vastly more common than fixed line phones in Malawi, with over 6.1 million mobile subscriptions compared with only 45,678 fixed line subscriptions As of 2015.[4]
A report by the International Telecommunications Union in 2014 found the average Malawians spend on mobile phones was over 56% of the average monthly earning there. This was the highest proportion of earnings found by the survey.[5]
Telephone system:
- domestic - fair system of open-wire lines, microwave radio relay links, and radiotelephone communications stations
- international - satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean)
Radio and television[]
Radio and television broadcast services in Malawi are also regulated by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA).[3]
There are 45 licensed radio broadcast stations, of which 31 are operational:[6] AM 9, FM 5 (plus 15 repeater stations), shortwave 2 (plus a third station held in standby status)) (As of 2016)
Radios: 2.6 million (As of 1997)
There are 20 licensed television broadcast stations, of which 5 are operational (As of 2016).[6]
Internet[]
The internet in Malawi is regulated by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) Business to consumer Internet service providers include Airtel, and .
As of July 2015 there were 1.67 million internet users in Malawi.[4]
The number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) was 18 (As of 2003). The Country code (Top level domain) is MW.
See also[]
- Malawi
- Media of Malawi
References[]
- ^ Chavula, James (22 October 2013). "Courier amid physical address woes". The Nation Online.
- ^ "Welcome to Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA)". www.macra.org.mw. MACRA.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Act No. 41 of 1998" (PDF). Malawi Government Gazette. 30 December 1998.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Africa: Malawi". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
- ^ Igunza, Emmanuel (20 February 2015). "Malawi's expensive mobile phone habit". BBC News.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Licenses Issued". www.macra.org.mw. Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority.
External links[]
This article incorporates public domain material from the CIA World Factbook website https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/.
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- Internet in Malawi
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