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COMUNICATIONS REGULATORY AUTHORITY (MACRA) Emily Heather Khamula MALAWI COMUNICATIONS REGULATORY AUTHORITY (MACRA) Emily Heather Khamula 1/2/2019 ITU/ICTP Workshop on New Radiocommunications Technologies for ICT in Developing countries Trieste Italy 2004

MA CRA ensures that as far as it is. practicable, there are affordable 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. 1/2/2019

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. 1/2/2019

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. 1/2/2019

Departments Frequency Management Telecommunications Broadcasting Finance and Administration Legal Postal (not yet established) 1/2/2019

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) 1/2/2019

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 1/2/2019

Public Broadcasters (Two) 1. Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (Sound) Composed of two Stations -Radio one (covers 95%) -Radio 2FM(covers almost 80%) 1/2/2019

Public Broadcasters (cont.) 2. Television Malawi (TV) has one station and covers almost 80 % of the country 1/2/2019

Community Broadcasters 3 Private/commercial Broadcasters 1/2/2019

Telecommunications operators One fixed operator (MTL) Two mobile operators (operational) One mobile operator (not yet in operation) 1/2/2019

Projects being carried out Rural Telecommunications Policy National Broadcasting Policy Frequency Management and Monitoring Equipment Procurement 1/2/2019

Thank you for your attention 1/2/2019