Malawi Telecom Sector: New Report

Malawi’s telecommunications sector is among the least developed in Africa with a fixed-line penetration rate below 1%, despite more than doubling the number of fixed-line connections in the past five years.

The mobile sector has grown more than nine-fold during the same period since competition was introduced, but market penetration is still very low in this sub-sector as well, at under 3%. 2005 saw a renewed failed attempt at privatisation of the national carrier, MTL, the revocation of the third mobile licence and the firing of the Board of the independent telecoms regulator, MACRA.

All of these events should create new opportunities in 2006, as should the licensing of a second national operator (SNO) and the legalisation of Internet telephony which are both planned in the near to mid-term.

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