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 letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional ser ...

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 The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) is the communications regulatory authority in Malawi. It was established as an independent regulatory organization in 1998 as part of the Communications Act. It oversees Malawi's Telecommunicati ...

(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

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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 -

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s - 2 Intelsat (1

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and 1

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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 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

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, and Malawi Postal Service. there were 1.67 million internet users in Malawi. The number of

Internet Service Provider An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privat ...

s (ISPs) was 18 (). The

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(Top level domain) is MW.

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