1. COMUNICATIONS REGULATORY AUTHORITY (MACRA) Emily Heather Khamula
MALAWI
COMUNICATIONS
REGULATORY
AUTHORITY (MACRA)
Emily Heather Khamula
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
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5. Departments Frequency Management Telecommunications Broadcasting
Finance and Administration
Legal
Postal (not yet established)
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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)
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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
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8. Public Broadcasters (Two)
1. Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (Sound)
Composed of two Stations
-Radio one (covers 95%)
-Radio 2FM(covers almost 80%)
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9. Public Broadcasters (cont.)
2. Television Malawi (TV) has one station
and covers almost 80 % of the country
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10. Community Broadcasters
3 Private/commercial Broadcasters
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11. Telecommunications operators
One fixed operator (MTL)
Two mobile operators (operational)
One mobile operator (not yet in operation)
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12. Projects being carried out
Rural Telecommunications Policy
National Broadcasting Policy
Frequency Management and Monitoring Equipment Procurement
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13. Thank you for your attention
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