Communications in Malawi
Template:Short description Communications in Malawi includes the country's postal, telephone, television, radio and internet services.
Post
[edit]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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Postal services in Malawi are regulated by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Act41of1998">Template:Cite web</ref>
Telephone
[edit]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 Template:As of.<ref name="CIA Malawi">Template:Cite web</ref>
A report by the International Telecommunication 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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
[edit]Template:See also Radio and television broadcast services in Malawi are also regulated by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA).<ref name="Act41of1998"/>
There are 45 licensed radio broadcast stations, of which 31 are operational:<ref name="MACRA licensees">Template:Cite web</ref> AM 9, FM 5 (plus 15 repeater stations), shortwave 2 (plus a third station held in standby status)) (Template:As of)
Radios: 2.6 million (Template:As of)
There are 20 licensed television broadcast stations, of which 5 are operational (Template:As of).<ref name="MACRA licensees"/>
Internet
[edit]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.
Template:As of there were 1.67 million internet users in Malawi.<ref name="CIA Malawi"/>
The number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) was 18 (Template:As of). The Country code (Top level domain) is MW.
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