Communications in Macau - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Owing to Macau's population (circa 500,000) and its small market, only a few options are available for the local people on media. With the fact that 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 seventeen newspapers (twelve in Chinese, four in Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

and two in English). Aomen Ribao (or Ou Mun Iat Pou, Macau Daily News) is reportedly owned by the Communist Party of China

Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China...

and has the largest circulation (40,00). Additionally, Chinese-language newspapers from Hong Kong

Newspapers of Hong Kong

This is a list of newspapers in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is home to many of Asia's biggest English and Chinese language newspapers. The territory has one of the world's largest press industries and is a major centre for print journalism.-Popularity:...

are popular.

Macau has eight Chinese-language, three Portuguese-language and two English-language daily. The Macau Daily Times
Macau Daily Times
The Macau Daily Times is one of the two daily English-language newspapers published in Macau, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, launched on June 1, 2007.- Overview :...

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.

Radio stations

Radios and Radio Stations: 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

Televisions and Television Channels

Television channel

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: There are 70,300 television sets (1997 estimate); two television channels: one Portuguese

Portuguese language

and one Chinese. Hong Kong Television networks TVB and ATV can be received and are widely watched by Macau residents.

Television broadcast stations: 3 (2006)

Televisions: 49,000 (1997)

Telephone

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 Intelsat

Intelsat

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(Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

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). Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent

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has been granted a contract in February 2007 to collocate a CDMA2000

CDMA2000

CDMA2000 is a family of 3G mobile technology standards, which use CDMA channel access, to send voice, data, and signaling data between mobile phones and cell sites. The set of standards includes: CDMA2000 1X, CDMA2000 EV-DO Rev. 0, CDMA2000 EV-DO Rev. A, and CDMA2000 EV-DO Rev. B...

1xEV-DO (Revision A) high-speed wireless network

Wireless network

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in Macau for China Unicom

China Unicom

China Unicom or China United Netcom Ltd , is a Chinese state-owned telecommunications operator in the People's Republic of China.-History:...

. Following the completion of the upgrades in related software and hardware

Hardware

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, China Unicom will be equipped with the facilities needed to provide high-speed mobile

Mobile phone

A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...

data

Data

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services for users in Macau, including broadcasting

Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...

and video telephony.

Telephones - main lines in use: 175,592 (July, 2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 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)

Mobile Phone Operators

Brand	Operator	Status	Bands (MHz)	References and notes
SmarTone	SmarTone Macao	Operational	GSM 900 / GSM 1800	http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_mo.shtml
CTM CTM (Macau) Companhia de Telecomunicações de Macau S.A.R.L is a GSM mobile phone operator in Macau....	C.T.M. Telemovel+	Operational	GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / UMTS 2100
China Telecom China Telecom China Telecom Corp. Ltd. is a Chinese state-owned telecommunication company. It is the largest fixed line service and 3rd largest mobile telecommunication provider in the People's Republic of China.-Sectors:...	China Telecom	Operational	CDMA 800
3 Hutchison 3G 3 is a brand name under which several UMTS-based mobile phone networks and Broadband Internet Providers are operated in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom...	Hutchison Telecom	Operational	GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / UMTS 2100

Internet

Internet Service Provider

Internet service provider

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s (ISPs): CTM (Companhia de Telecomunicações de Macau S.A.R.L.)

Country code (Top level domain): .mo

.mo

.mo is the Internet country code top-level domain for Macau. The inclusion of the letter "o" in the TLD refers to the alternate spelling of Macao.The registry for this domain name is operated by the Macao Network Information Center...

Broadband internet access

The Macao Telecommunications Company (CTM) in 2000 launched the first broadband Internet access in the territory, on a network built by Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$...