CAMA welcomes suggestion to revive MDC but to be completely independent of government interference

* Yes, all things being equal that’s the way to move if we want to develop—Kapito * While it might have worked in South Africa, it’s quite hard to think that such a model can work successfully in a different country * With different economic systems and challenges — especially the financing part * During Dr. Banda’s rule, the economic model was completely different than what we have today * Dr. Banda was subsidizing every industry — education, transportation,…

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Top global internet service provider Starlink licensed by MACRA; Awaiting being published in Government Gazette

Starlink offers high-speed low latency broadband satellite internet service * Starlink Lilongwe Limited is a company owned by SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, USA * Issued with Network Facilities, Network Services andApplication Service licences * Which will be effective on the day when they will be published in the Government gazette By Duncan Mlanjira At its 77th Board meeting on Friday, October 21 in Blantyre, Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) granted its first-ever high-speed low latency broadband satellite internet service…

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Wholly Malawian-owned new mobile service provider Malcel Plc promises best customer experience as it becomes 6th operator

* MACRA officially presents it with 3 licenses that have successfully been gazetted in Parliament * Minister of Information Kazako prays that this will induce competition in the telecommunications industry * Which will level the playing field and yield effective communication services for the ICT consumer * I urge Malcel to roll out their services with speed as consumers are anxious to see new services By Duncan Mlanjira New mobile service provider Malcel Plc, which has officially been presented…

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Malawians encouraged to utilise SDNP’s dot mw (.MW) emails and websites on Malawi domains

Minister Kazako presents the authorization key to SNDP’s owner Paulos Nyirenda * Malawians, as well as companies conducting their businesses in Malawi, should take pride in using .MW as part of their domain names—MACRA * Let us begin to more patriotic and identify ourselves with our country online on the World Wide Web—Kazako * .MW operates on a global internet domains that identifies that such communications are specifically from Malawi—SNDP By Duncan Mlanjira Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA) has…

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TNM unveils upgraded Smart App merged with Mpamba mobile money service

* The increase in smartphone usage is having a massive impact on telecommunication and financial inclusion drive * We understand that we are living in new technological era that our offerings strive to align customers to the world’s digital trends * The App augurs well with our strategy where we are becoming very aggressive in terms of digital appliances By Duncan Mlanjira TNM Plc, Malawi’s mobile network and information & communications technology (ICT) services provider, has unveiled updated TNM…

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CFTC inspection exercise exposes serious breach of Contract Farming Strategy by industry players

* Some farmers indicate that they did not sign contracts with contract buyers * Some contracts were in English, and used difficult legal language which the farmers could not understand * Specific prices for inputs were not indicated * Loans were in foreign currency (US$), not in local currency By Duncan Mlanjira Following up on its mandate, the Competition and Fair Trade Commission (CFTC) conducted inspections on contract farming in which it engaged over 60 farmers’ clubs across the…

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Sycamore Consult to host retirement planning training on November 29-30

* The majority of people get so scared of ever going on retirement — not because they don’t want to relax after working for years * But it’s because they know that once the salary ends, they will have very little money to live on * There is need to get skills of how one can prepare for a good retirement where money is not a problem By Duncan Mlanjira After a successful wealth creation conference in Lilongwe in…

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Globe Internet Limited lady employees donate food and non-food items at Queens Hospital

The group getting set to cheer the patients * We engaged the hospital management who enlighten us on the areas needed to be assisted in the wards at the hospital * We chose the two wards because they have patients that need special care * Ward 2A cares for cancer patients, 2B for chronic renal diseases and 3A for TB * At the TB ward, we mostly gave the gifts to patients that were referred to Queens from district…

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Two customers win 60 seconds shopping dash worth K300,000 as first 10 winners are drawn in FDH Bank’s Swipe & Dash promo

* Four won shopping vouchers worth K60,000 and four more earned fuel vouchers, also worth K60,000 * Launched in August, customers are encouraged to swipe on FDH Bank’s point of sale (PoS) * Whether they hold an account with FDH Bank or not and they write their names at the back of the receipt * Which are deposited in a box placed at the exit of the supermarket By Duncan Mlanjira First 10 winners have been drawn in FDH…

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FND endorses planned national shutdown and prolonged mass demonstrations

Long fuel queues are order of the day * Amidst all the challenges that Malawi is facing, the leadership has chosen to behave as business as usual * Condone mass looting and theft of public resources and executive coverup of corruption * Chakwera pledged and requested the citizens to join him in removing the rubble from the government * We believe that Tonse Alliance is the very same rubble ought to be removed * The proposed demonstrations and national…

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