Telecommunications in Macau

With Macau's small population (about 680,000) and market, only a few local media options are available for the local people. Because radio signals, newspapers and magazines from Hong Kong are available in Macau, the local media are always a minority group in terms of sales and number of viewers.

Newspapers

There are eighteen newspapers (twelve in Chinese, four in

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Macau has eight Chinese-language, three Portuguese-language and two English-language dailies. The Macau Daily Times is Macau's only English-language newspaper edited seven days a week. Macau Post Daily is published from Monday to Friday. It is owned by a local publishing company, Everbright Co. Ltd., which is locally owned.^[1]

Radio

There are 250,000 radios; two twenty-hour FM radio stations, one Portuguese, one Chinese; and four AM stations. Hong Kong radio stations also are popular in Macau.

• Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 0 (2005)
• Radios: 160,000 (1997)

Television

There are 70,300 television sets (1997 estimate); two general television channels from TDM: one Portuguese and one Chinese. Hong Kong television networks TVB and ViuTV can be received and are widely watched by Macau residents.

• Television broadcast stations: 3 (2006)
• Televisions: 49,000 (1997)

Macau government owns the television station called TDM. It has 16 digital television channels (6 channels are its own channel, 1 channel for transmitting TDM radio, 9 channels are transmitting television channels from mainland China).

Telephone

CTM

telephone booth

The number of telephone lines has been increasing since the mid-1990s. In 1997 there were 222,456 telephones; by 1999, 300,066 lines were in use. In 1999 there were 686 telephone lines per 1,000 people. Cellular-telephone-use statistics were not available. International access is via Hong Kong and Mainland China and via

• Telephone main lines in use: 175,592 (July 2006)
• Mobile cellular telephones: 325,016 (July 2006)

Telephone system: fairly modern communication facilities maintained for domestic and international services

• domestic: N/A
• international: HF radiotelephone communication facility; access to international communications carriers provided via Hong Kong and Mainland China; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)
• Users: 88,653 (2005)

As of December 2023, CTM is the only carrier to offer

Mobile phone operators

Brand	Operator	Status	Bands (MHz)[4]
CTM	C.T.M. Telemovel+	Operational	UMTS 2100 (3G) / LTE FDD 900 (4G) / LTE FDD 1800 (4G) / LTE FDD 2100 (4G) / LTE FDD 2600 (4G) / NR FDD 700 (5G) / NR FDD 2100 (5G) / NR TDD 3500 (5G) / NR TDD 4900 (5G)
3 Macau	Hutchison Telecom	Operational	UMTS 900 (3G) / UMTS 2100 (3G) / LTE FDD 1800 (4G)
SmarTone MAC	SmarTone Macau	Operational	UMTS 2100 (3G) / LTE FDD 1800 (4G)
China Telecom (Macau)	China Telecom	Operational	CDMA 800 (3G) / LTE FDD 850 (4G) / LTE FDD 1800 (4G) / LTE FDD 2100 (4G) / NR FDD 700 (5G) / NR FDD 2100 (5G) / NR TDD 3500 (5G) / NR TDD 4900 (5G)

Decommissioning of GSM

GSM mobile phone networks for consumers in Macau were set to be decommissioned in July 2012. Networks will only be left in place for visitors to roam onto. The planned shutdown will make Macau be the first region in the world to phase out networks using the GSM standard, but it was postponed until 2019.^[5]

Internet

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S.A.R.L.), MTel

Broadband Internet access

The

MTel Telecommunications also provides broadband internet service and is CTM's main competitor, though much smaller market share.

See also

• Media of Macau
• Communications in Hong Kong
• Communications in China
• List of Chinese-language television channels
• CTM (Macau)

References and notes

External links

• CIA - The World Factbook - Macau