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Telecommunications in Malta

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ7695978 ↗
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This article is an overview of telecommunications in Malta.

Telephone

Telephones - main lines in use:

259,000 (2022)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

702,000 (2022)

Telephone system:

automatic system satisfies normal requirements

domestic:

submarine cables and microwave radio relay between islands

international:

2 submarine cables; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 1, FM 18, shortwave 6 (1999)

Radios:

255,000 (1997)

Amateur radio operators:

Approx. 500

Amateur radio repeaters:

1 HF ALE EchoLink Gateway (9H1BBS-L) DTMF Access 145300 CTCSS 77 Hz (Owned by G0DEO/9H1IA)

1 VHF/UHF 9H1IA-L Frequency Agile CrossBand Link CTCSS 151.4 Hz (Owned by G0DEO/9H1IA)

1 VHF (9H1BBS 145.750 MHz CTCSS 77 Hz (Owned by G0DEO/9H1IA)

1 UHF (9H1BBS 433.175 MHz CTCSS 77 Hz (Owned by G0DEO/9H1IA)

2 Microwave Amateur Television ( ATV ) Repeaters ( 9H1ATV built by 9H1LO and run by MARL and 9H1LO/r built and run by 9H1LO )

Amateur radio beacons:

1 HF 6 Meater Beacon 9H1SIX 50.023 MHz JM75fv (Run by MARL Club)

1 HF 10 Meter Band CW Beacon 9H1LO/B on 28.223 MHz

1 HF 30 Meter Band QRSS Beacon 9H1LO/B on 10.140.90 MHz

1 HF 17 Meter Band PSK31 Beacon 9H1LO/B on 18.110.15 MHz

1 VHF 2 Meter Band Beacon 9H1LO/B on 144.500 MHz (currently summer months only)

Television

Television broadcast stations:

6 (2000)

Televisions:

280,000 (1997)

Internet

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

17 (2005)

Broadband Wireless Internet Service Provider Licenses:

3 (2005)

Internet users:

461,100 (2021)

Country code (Top level domain): .mt

Broadband Providers

Source:

References

This article incorporates public domain material from The World Factbook (2025 ed.).

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 1999, 1997, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Telecommunications, Malta and Open-knowledge is the immediate research focus.
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