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Malawi Communications 2015
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SOURCE: 2015 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Malawi Communications 2015
SOURCE: 2015 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on June 20, 2014

Telephones - main lines in use:
227,300 (2012)
country comparison to the world: 126
[see also: Telephones - main lines in use country ranks ]

Telephones - mobile cellular:
4.42 million (2012)
country comparison to the world: 117
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular country ranks ]

Telephone system:
general assessment: rudimentary; privatization of Malawi Telecommunications (MTL), a necessary step in bringing improvement to telecommunications services, completed in 2006
domestic: limited fixed-line subscribership of about 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular services are expanding but network coverage is limited and is based around the main urban areas; mobile-cellular subscribership about 25 per 100 persons
international: country code - 265; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean, 1 Atlantic Ocean) (2010)

Broadcast media:
radio is the main broadcast medium; privately-owned Zodiac radio has the widest national broadcasting reach, followed by state-run radio; about a dozen private and community radio stations broadcast in cities and towns around the country; the largest TV network is government-owned, but two private TV networks now broadcast in urban areas and more plan to begin broadcasting in 2014; relays of multiple international broadcasters are available (2014)

Internet country code:
.mw

Internet hosts:
1,099 (2012)
country comparison to the world: 171
[see also: Internet hosts country ranks ]

Internet users:
716,400 (2009)
country comparison to the world: 109
[see also: Internet users country ranks ]


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Malawi on this page is re-published from the 2015 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Malawi Communications 2015 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Malawi Communications 2015 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
  a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order




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