Minister of information Gospel Kazako on Friday engaged Press Corporation limited (PCL) plc executive management on the future of struggling Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) where government has a 20 percent stake. The minister said the engagement with PCL, a majority shareholder in MTL after the privatisation of the government entity in 2005, was one way […]
Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) Offices in Thyolo were on Wednesday gutted down by fire, burning to ashes property worth millions of kwacha. According to MTL Head of Operations, Fredrick Mswayo, the fire started at around 12:00 noon on Wednesday and destroyed almost all communication equipment inside the building including data and voice gadgets. Nswayo could […]
Have you ever wondered why airtime and data should expire? Expiry date is one of the worst conditions subscribers get from telecommunication companies. Once subscribers buy airtime or data, companies should have nothing do with it. They have sold the data or airtime and recouped their money. What else do they need? People buy airtime […]
Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) Shift Leader guard this week shot a man suspected of stealing MTL cables in Area 15 opposite the Assemblies of God in Lilongwe. Lilongwe Police Station Public Relations Officer (PRO) Inspector Kingsley Dandaula said on Tuesday the suspect Evisoni Lakiyoni and his friend only known as Patrick were spotted and confronted […]
While phone consumers are still whining about poor services from the providers, they will have another shocker with revelations that two of the country’s phone service operators, Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) and Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) are in huge foreign debt amounting to US$21 million (about K15.2 billion). Press Corporations Limited Financial Manager, Elizabeth Mafeni […]
Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) has reaffirmed its commitment to improved service delivery to its customers. The company made the assurance in Blantyre on Wednesday when it unveiled a new consumer campaign called Better, Easier, Cheaper (BEC). It replaces the previous MTL NdiDhilu campaign introduced in 2013. With BEC, the company is providing an affordable voice […]
Dear Mr MTL CEO, How do you introduce a facility that you fail to manage? Do you know the kind of shame your ineptitude in managing MTL is subjecting us, your innocent customers? Look, you, without consultations to us your customers, suspended the easy way of recharging internet airtime and told us to be recharging […]
Lilongwe based golfer Thakor Sanjay on Saturday, November 21, 2015 claimed a second golf title within a space of one week when emerged overall winner in the Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) Golf Day held at the 18-hole golf course of Lilongwe Golf Club (LGC). Playing off handicap 12, which was later chopped to 10, the […]
Association of Telecommunications Operators (ATOL) has donated K20.5 million to the Department of Disaster Management and Affairs in response to reaching out and helping out people and communities affected by floods and hailstorms in the country. Speaking at the cheque presentation ceremony at Capital Hill, Lilongwe on Wednesday, Secretary for Department of Disaster Management and […]
Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) has recently appointed Dr. Harry Gombachika as its new Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O). A statement released by the company says, Gombachika’s appointment came into effect on 6th January, 2015. The new C.E.O has previously served as General Manager of Telecommunications at the Press Corporation Limited (PCL), Director of Higher Education under […]
Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) has withdrawn sponsorship for domestic netball giants MTL Queens to the tune of K6 million per season. MTL corporate affairs manager Tina Das confirmed tending their romance that lasted over a decade. According to Das, MTL has withdrawn sponsorship as a result of the restructuring exercise which the company underwent recently. […]
Barely few days after a Chinese technology company Huawei was threatened with a legal suit from Bengol Construction over delayed payments, the company has been embroiled in another scandal for failing to pay its local Malawian sub contractors, three years after finishing the contracted job. Huawei sub-contracted several Malawian companies in its contract to construct […]
Police in Mzuzu have charged two boys both 14 years old of an offence of attempt theft after they were caught and shot by two Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) guards in the early morning hours of Wednesday trying to steal telephone line cables at MTL offices in the city. The suspects Madalitso Banda and Yamikani Mshani both […]
Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) has profited from its one month free calls promotion, which was initially launched to run from December 21 to January 21. During the promotion MTL mobile phone subscribers had a rare opportunity to call each other for free during the entire weekends and from 8.00pm to 6.00am during weekdays. And just […]
Malawi Telecom Limited Company renewed its sponsorship deal MTL Queens on Thursday following the company’s K8 million sponsorship for one year to the netball giant which was presented in the commercial city of Malawi, Blantyre. MTL acting Chief Commercial Officer Zaine Bwanali described their relationship with MTL Queens as cordial and that they are […]
Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) has said it has withdrawn indefinitely from football sponsorship but will keep sponsoring the netball outfit MTL Queens. In recent months, our company has undertaken an exhausted process of re-evaluating our sponsorship, social and support strategy. The outcome of the strategic reviews was to concentrate our social support activities on long-term […]
Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) is to adjust its tariffs following the depreciation of the Malawi kwacha against its major trading currencies, rising inflation rates and increasing cost of borrowing. According to a statement which was released on Monday, March 18, 2013, the company stated that all prepaid phone services will be adjusted by 20th March 19, […]
The board of directors of Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL), country’s only fixed-line operator, has appointed Elias Imaan as acting chief executive officer with effect from 25 April 2012. According to a statement from MTL, since 2008, Imaan held positions of Head of Marketing and Chief Commercial Officer. “As Chief Commercial Officer, he has been one […]