WithMacau'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.
There are eighteen newspapers (twelve in Chinese, four inPortuguese and two in English).O Mun Yat Po orMacau Daily News) is owned by theChinese Communist Party and has the largest circulation (4,000). Additionally, Chinese-languagenewspapers from Hong Kong are popular.[citation needed]
Macau has eight Chinese-language, three Portuguese-language and two English-language dailies. TheMacau 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]
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.
There are 70,300 television sets (1997 estimate); two generaltelevision channels from TDM: onePortuguese and one Chinese. Hong Kong television networks TVB andViuTV can be received and are widely watched by Macau residents.
Macau government owns the television station calledTDM. 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).
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 viaIntelsat (Indian Ocean).Alcatel-Lucent was granted a contract in February 2007 to collocate aCDMA20001xEV-DO (Revision A) high-speedwireless network in Macau forChina Unicom. Following the completion of the upgrades in relatedsoftware andhardware, China Unicom will be equipped with the facilities needed to provide high-speedmobile data services for users in Macau, includingbroadcasting andvideo telephony.[2]
Telephone system: fairly modern communication facilities maintained for domestic and international services
3 Macau is the only carrier to offerVoWiFi. SmarTone MAC is the only carrier not yet to offerVoLTE, till its operation ceased.[3]
On 21 August 2024, The Macau SAR Government has received an application from SmarTone to forgo the 4G license and plans to cease renewing the 3G license after expiration.[4] According to the Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT), SmarTone (at that time) had a relatively small market share in Macau, only a single-digit percentage.[5]
| Brand | Operator | Status | Bands (MHz)[6] |
|---|---|---|---|
| CTM | C.T.M. Telemovel+ | Operational | LTE FDD 900 / 1800 / 2100 NR FDD 2100 NR TDD 3500 / 4900 |
| 3 Macau | Hutchison Telecom | Operational | LTE FDD 900[7] / 1800 |
| China Telecom (Macau) | China Telecom | Operational | LTE FDD 850 / 1800 / 2100 NR TDD 3500 |
| SmarTone MAC | SmarTone Macau | Not operational | UMTS 2100 LTE FDD 1800 |
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.[8]
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Internet Service Providers (ISPs): CTM (Companhia de Telecomunicações de Macau S.A.R.L.), MTel
Country code (Top level domain):.mo
TheMacao Telecommunications Company (CTM) in 2000 launched the firstbroadband Internet access in the territory, on a network built byCisco Systems.[9]
MTel Telecommunications also provides broadband internet service and is CTM's main competitor, though much smaller market share.
Macau is outside theGreat Firewall, therefore there is no internet censorship besidesillegal content in Macau.
