general assessment: NA domestic: system employs open-wire lines, microwave radio relay
links, and radiotelephone communications stations international: country code - 265; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast
stations:
AM 9, FM 5 (plus 15 repeater stations), shortwave
2 (plus a third station held in standby status) (2001)
Radios:
2.6 million (1997)
Television broadcast
stations:
1 (2001)
Televisions:
NA
Internet country code:
.mw
Internet hosts:
18 (2003)
Internet Service
Providers (ISPs):
3 (2002)
Internet users:
36,000 (2003)
Transportation
Malawi
Railways:
total: 797 km narrow gauge: 797 km 1.067-m gauge (2003)
Highways:
total: 28,400 km paved: 5,254 km unpaved: 23,146 km (1999 est.)
Waterways:
700 km note: on Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) and Shire River (2003)
Ports and harbors:
Chipoka, Monkey Bay, Nkhata Bay, Nkhotakota,
Chilumba
Airports:
42 (2003 est.)
Airports - with paved
runways:
total: 6 over 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 4 (2003 est.)
Airports - with
unpaved runways:
total: 38 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 15 under 914 m: 20 (2003 est.)