SimbaNet, a price-competitive Internet service provider (ISP), has bemoaned lack of reliable last mile structures to improve internet connectivity in the country. General Manager for SimbaNet, Brian Longwe said this Wednesday in Lilongwe when Communications Parliamentary Committee and Media visited Simbanet Virtual landing point site at Capital hill. He said once the country would have […]
Information Communications Technology Association of Malawi (ICTAM) says it is pushing for innovative ways of making internet charges go down. Speaking in an interview on Friday during the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Innovations Awards held in Mangochi, ICTAM President, Wisely Phiri said the use of local content on the Internet could help lower Internet […]
Director General of Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) Godfrey Itaye has said cyber-crimes are a challenge all over the world and that countries have lost millions of money due to the malpractice. Itaye made the remarks on Tuesday during the signing ceremony of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Malawi Police Service on spectrum management […]
Opposition legislators took turns to query Export and Import Bank of China moved by Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe on why government is taking a loan of K16.5 billion from Export and Import Bank of China on behalf the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom). MP for Mangochi Monkey Bay (PP), Ralph […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) querried the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for sidiling northern city of Mzuzu in the intended implementation of the National Fibre Backbone Project. Commenting on the motion under Bill Number 31 of 2016 seeking Parliament approval and authorisation to lend K16.5 billion from Export and Import Bank of China moved […]
Success Series Group, a Malawian firm into international online business, marketing and publishing, has launched a scheme whose aim is to provide support to Malawians with a passion to go global with their businesses. The firm’s chief executive officer Sam Smith Silumbu told Nyasa Times in an exclusive interview that the initiative is running through […]
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe has said China will provide Malawi with 160 million yuan [about K16.5 billion or a $23 million] to improve Internet connectivity . Gondwe said this after the signing of framework agreement on the provision of a concessional loan with China for the Malawi National Fibre Backbone […]
Malawi has been ranked “partly free” in the Freedom on the Net report by the activist group Freedom House released on Monday which also said President Peter Mutharika is showing “autocratic tendencies.” The Freedom House report, one of the most authoritative reports in the field, investigated 65 geographically dispersed and politically diverse countries, and ranked them according […]
Balaka North Member of Parliament, Lucius Banda, asked Minister of Information Patricia Kaliati that government should provide free Wi-Fi internet access within the House of Parliament so they can be logged online. Banda called for wireless internet access to be made available around Parliament so that MPs can be able to “Google” on matters arising. “I […]
Minister of Information, Communications, Technology and Civic Education Patricia Kaliati Wednesday launched Malawi virtual landing point to boost internet access in the country as currently Internet penetration in Malawi stands at a partly 5 percent. Kaliati said it was a timely and much need communication infrastructure against the backdrop of increasing cross border trade and […]
Following President Peter Mutharika’s recent remarks against the country’s use of social media, government has disclosed it has drafted new cyber laws to regulate social media in the country. Information minister Jappie Mhango has said a bill that will be coming up in parliament soon to regulate the social media provides for stiff punishment for […]
Research findings of a study done by the National Statistical Office (NSO) in conjunction with Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) have indicated that the country is not doing well in the area of internet usage. The Survey targeted 12,000 households and 12,000 individuals and the findings indicated that six percent of the population use internet. […]
A window of affordable access and high-speed connectivity to internet has opened for small and medium businesses (SMEs) and individuals following the launch of Smart eWiMAX under the TNM brand. E-Wimax is now a fully-operational TNM product following the acquisition of Burco’s Internet Service Provider (ISP) assets by TNM and joins the bouquet of current […]
The new tax on internet data traffic and phone text messages (SMS has come under fire from Members of Parliament who have said it’s retrogressive during their debates on the 2015/16 national budget in the capital Lilongwe. Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe announced the new tax measure in his budget statement. Karonga South MP Malani Mtonga ( Peoples Party) said […]
Malawi government is being pressed to scrap a planned tax on internet data traffic and and phone text messages (SMS). The opposition and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) asked government to drop its plans, warning that increasing the cost of web usage would be retrogressive for the developing nation. Minister of Information Kondwani Nankhumwa has also reportedly cautioned Finance Minister Goodall […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Member of Parliament for Dedza East, Juliana Lunguzi, has demanded a halt to a proposed tax on internet use, saying. this move will make Malawians unable to access internet services and therefore be denied their right to information. Finance, Economic Planning and Development Minister Goodall Gondwe announced that starting this […]
Malawi Finance, Economic Planning and Development Minister Goodall Gondwe on Friday said the 2015/16 budget which has no budgetary support from donors will be financed by local resources and announced new tax measures including a 10 percent excise duty to be levied on phone text messaging and all data transfers, including internet and similar services. […]
Malawi’s premier mobile service provider, Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) is pleased to announce the launch of another Smart Data service, Internet.org which will enables customers to visit and use online sites for free. TNM Chief Commercial Officer Daniel Makata said Internet.org gives free access to useful websites and services to TNM subscribers. “The launch of […]