Communications in Malawi

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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[]

See also: Media of Malawi § Television, and Media of Malawi § Radio

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[]

  1. ^ Chavula, James (22 October 2013). "Courier amid physical address woes". The Nation Online.
  2. ^ "Welcome to Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA)". www.macra.org.mw. MACRA.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Act No. 41 of 1998" (PDF). Malawi Government Gazette. 30 December 1998.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Africa: Malawi". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  5. ^ Igunza, Emmanuel (20 February 2015). "Malawi's expensive mobile phone habit". BBC News.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b "Licenses Issued". www.macra.org.mw. Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority.

External links[]

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the CIA World Factbook website https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/.


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