Dramatic new details of the desperate scramble to locate the aircraft carrying former vice-president Saulos Chilima have emerged before Parliament, as former Airtel Malawi managing director Charles Kamoto revealed exactly how officials raced against time to trace phones belonging to those onboard. Kamoto told the Parliamentary Ad-hoc Committee investigating the Chikangawa crash that he was […]
Airtel Malawi on Monday said it has give government an additional K100 million to mitigate the current challenges in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. This additional K100 million supplements an earlier donation of K104 million, which Airtel Malawi made in June last year, which was used to purchase ventilators and oxygen concentrators by the […]
Malawi’s leading mobile telecommunications provider Airtel plc has reduced the price of Pay As You Go tariffs from K15 per megabite (MB) to K5 per MB as well as increasing the benefits of eight popular bundles with effect from 3 August, 2020. Airtel Malawi made the announcement in Lilongwe on Thursday. Managing director for Airtel Malawi Plc […]
Airtel Malawi Plc has joined the fight against coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic by donating K104 millon to go towards the purchase of ventilators for hospitals. In atatement on Monday, Airtel Malawi says it is working with the Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19 and the Ministry of Health to make sure that frontline health care workers in the […]
Airtel Malawi says 2.2 billion shares are on sale to Malawians from this Friday to January 31, 2020 and the company is encouraging individuals to seize the opportunity to be part of shareholders. Airtel Malawi’s Managing Director Charles Kamoto made the announcement Tuesday during a press briefing at the company’s head office in Lilongwe. He […]
Multi-national mobile telecommunications network operator Airtel Malawi plc on Wednesday announced its intention to list on the main board of the Malawi Stock Exchange (MSE) as aligned to the Communications Act and its operating license. Airtel Malawi managing director Charles Kamoto said the development will allow Malawians to share in Airtel Malawi’s success story. “Today marks […]
As one way of motivating high standards of performance, leading telecoms network provider, Airtel Malawi, awarded eight of its staff over the weekend for a retreat at Blue Zebra Island lodge in Salima together with Managing Director Charles Kamoto. A statement from Airtel says the reward is for their excellent work in the past 2019 […]
Scores of journalists were on Tuesday ordered out of the meeting the Minister of Information, Civic Education and Communications Technology, Mark Botomani, held with the management of Airtel Malawi in Lilongwe. Ironically, officials from the ministry had extended invitations to media houses to send reporters to cover the courtesy call Botomani paid at the mobile phone […]
Martin Luther king, Junior once said “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’. And if you ask the same question to Airtel Malawi Managing Director Charles Kamoto, the urgent answer would be “he donated blood” to save lives. On Friday, Kamoto also headed Lilongwe based journalists in donating blood […]
Mobile phone users operating on the Airtel Malawi service platform have multiple reasons to smile after the mobile operator rolled out its 4th generation (4G) 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile technology. With the launch of the 4G network, Airtel Malawi seeks to meet the demands of the market and its customers for faster, seamless […]
Mobile phone network provider, Airtel Malawi, has admitted facing challenges in their on-going network upgrade exercise which they did not anticipate resulting in occasional service gaps. Since the commencement of the upgrade works, clients on the network have had to contend with intermittent call drops, silent calls as well as slower speed of the internet […]
Youthful Malawian down-to-earth marketer Charles Kamoto has been appointed Airtel Malawi managing director (MD) effective from March 1, tasked with driving the company’s strategic leadership in Malawi , building its brand and extending the company’s 3G footprint. Airtel is a member of one of the world’s leading telecommunications companies, Bharti Airtel. Kamoto becomes only the […]
In a bid to inform, enlight, empower and increase access to Agribased information, leading mobile telecommunications operator Airtel Malawi has launched Mchikumbe 212, a mobile phone application that offers access to a wide range of information on farming. Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Dr Allan Chiyembekeza officially launched the product in Lilongwe. He said […]
Malawi leading telecommunications company Airtel has axed about 41 employees in what the management has described the move a repositioning business for next growth phase. Inside sources have confided in Nyasa Times that amongst the retrenched staff are some top management officials both at the company’s headquarters and regional offices. In a statement released on Friday and […]
Chief Commercial Manager for leading telecommunications company Airtel, Charles Kamoto is acting managing director of the company in Malawi while Dr Matthews Mtumbuka an information technology (IT) director is now cluster IT governance lead for Malawi and Zambia. Kamoto moved from rival Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) where he worked for 15 years to Airtel as chief […]
Malawi’s first and only netball export, Mwawi Kumwenda was chosen as Airtel Malawi’s ambassador replacing international football star Yaya Toure who featured in the initial phase of the’ its now’ campaign. Riding on the celebrity’s popularity, Airtel launched a campaign dubbed “It’s Now”, which seeks to nurture and grow talent through sports, lifestyle and music. […]
Airtel Malawi has launched ‘Airtel Premier Plus’ a special tailored service and benefits program for customers from within Airtel Premier Program which kick-started three years ago. “We initially segmented some customers to Airtel Premier, but over time we also discovered that even the Airtel Premier category the needs are also different. So we have regrouped […]
The growth and success of Airtel Money continues to rise in Malawi and beyond. Leading mobile telecommunications operator Airtel Malawi has now added extra muscle to ‘Mr Money’ by introducing a cross-border money transfer service for its Airtel Money mobile banking service. With the new service, Airtel Money customers in the country can now transfer […]