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 office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
s throughout the country. Ten other postal services providers operate in Malawi, including DHL, FedEx.
Postal services in Malawi are regulated by the
Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA).
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 .
A report by the
International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)In the other common languages of the ITU:
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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.
Telephone system:
* domestic - fair system of open-wire lines, microwave radio relay links, and radiotelephone communications stations
* international -
satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat
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(1
Indian Ocean
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and 1
Atlantic Ocean
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Radio and television
Radio and television broadcast services in Malawi are also regulated by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA).
There are 45 licensed radio broadcast stations, of which 31 are operational:
AM 9,
FM 5 (plus 15 repeater stations),
shortwave
Shortwave radio is radio transmission using radio frequencies in the shortwave bands (SW). There is no official definition of the band range, but it always includes all of the high frequency band (HF), which extends from 3 to 30 MHz (app ...
2 (plus a third station held in standby status)) ()
Radios: 2.6 million ()
There are 20 licensed television broadcast stations, of which 5 are operational ().
Internet
The internet in Malawi is regulated by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) Business to consumer Internet service providers include
Airtel, and
Malawi Postal Service.
there were 1.67 million internet users in Malawi.
The number of
Internet Service Provider
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s (ISPs) was 18 (). The
Country code
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The term ''country code'' frequently re ...
(Top level domain) is
MW.
See also
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Malawi
Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south, and southwest. Malawi spans over and ...
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Media of Malawi
References
External links
GSM World page on MalawiPanAfriL10n page on Malawi
Internet in Malawi
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