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Emily Heather Khamula

Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority ensures affordable communication services, licenses operators, assigns frequencies, and eliminates harmful interference. Divisions include Frequency Management, Telecommunications, Broadcasting, Finance and Administration, and Legal. Responsibilities also cover identification of radio stations and technical maintenance. Broadcasting regulation includes overseeing broadcast engineering and content regulation duties. Malawi's broadcasting landscape includes public, community, and private broadcasters as well as telecommunications operators. Projects include Rural Telecommunications Policy, National Broadcasting Policy, and Frequency Management initiatives.

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Emily Heather Khamula

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  1. Emily Heather Khamula MALAWI COMUNICATIONS REGULATORY AUTHORITY (MACRA) ITU/ICTP Workshop on New Radiocommunications Technologies for ICT in Developing countries Trieste Italy 2004

  2. MA CRA ensures that as far as it is practicable, there are affordable communication services throughout the country required to meet the demand for them.

  3. Responsibilities • Licensing all the communications sector (operators). • Defining the technical conditions under which licenses will be issued. • Assigning frequencies to stations to ensure that a minimum of harmful interference is created to other stations. • Ensuring that correct operating procedures are followed by all radio stations.

  4. Responsibilities (cont.) • Ensuring that correct operating procedures are followed by all radio stations. • Arranging for the identification of every radio station. • Ensuring that the technical conditions of stations are main­tained. •  Identifying and taking steps to eliminate sources of harmful interference.

  5. Departments • Frequency Management • Telecommunications • Broadcasting • Finance and Administration • Legal • Postal (not yet established)

  6. Where I belong within MACRA Broadcasting • Responsible for regulation of the broadcasting engineering • Somehow I combine the duties of content regulation (not done to a great extent since Broadcasting regulations are not yet established)

  7. Where I belong (cont.) • Frequency Management • I do some of the duties in Frequency management. • I have been attending frequency management training workshops Technical seminars like this one

  8. Public Broadcasters (Two) 1. Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (Sound) Composed of two Stations -Radio one (covers 95%) -Radio 2FM(covers almost 80%)

  9. Public Broadcasters (cont.) 2. Television Malawi (TV) has one station and covers almost 80 % of the country

  10. Community Broadcasters • 14 Community Broadcaster • 3 Private/commercial Broadcasters

  11. Telecommunications operators • One fixed operator (MTL) • Two mobile operators (operational) • One mobile operator (not yet in operation)

  12. Projects being carried out • Rural Telecommunications Policy • National Broadcasting Policy • Frequency Management and Monitoring Equipment Procurement

  13. Thank you for your attention

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