Malawi Minister of Information is blackmailing telecommunication operators to accept the installation on the dubbed ‘spy machine’, the Consolidated ICT Regulatory Management System (CIRMS) or risk to have their licences revoked by government. Operators including Airtel Malawi Limited, Telecom Networks of Malawi (TNM), Access Communications Limited (ACL) and Malawi Telecommunication Limited (MTL) against the installation […]
Journalists don’t reveal sources as a key tenet of media profession but authorities will be able to unmask them through the dubbed ‘spy machine’ – the Consolidated ICT Regulatory Management Systems (Cirms) – which Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) wants to install in the country, the four telecom operators have warned. Airtel, TNM, Malawi Telecommunications […]
Police in the Malawi’s northern region lake shore district of Karonga on Saturday allowed a female suspect flee from custody after she was allowed to go and buy credit for her phone at Karonga Boma, Nyasa Times can reveal. According to Karonga Police Station Officer-In-Charge Tereza Nankhuni, the female suspect Jane Mwayikera of Mbeya district […]
Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL), the biggest fixed phone operator, says it is paying up to K100 million (about $657 894) ever year to replace its underground cables due to vandalism and the company is offering g up to K50, 000 (US$299. 00) for information leading to the arrests of the vandals. MTL has set a […]
A court in Lilongwe has granted an order restraining the telephone operators in the country from passing Call Detail Records (CDRs) to Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) on their spying machine project. Nyasa Times found out from the court registry that a mobile phone subscriber from Blantyre, Alick Kimu sued all the four telephone operators […]