MALAWI’S President Bakili Muluzi on Thursday launched the country’s second cellular network, Celtel Malawi, with a challenge for telecommunicationcompanies to focus on providing coverage to thecountry’s impoverished rural regions. Celtel Malawi is a joint venture between the United Kingdom’sMobile Systems,Malawi’s state-owned Posts and Telecommunications Corporation and the government’s main investment arm, the Malawi Development Corporation. The country’s first cellular network,Telcom Networks Malawi, was launched by Muluzi in 1997 but only covers major urban areas. Muluzi praisedhis government’sinvestment policy which on Thursday, saying it had resulted inthe proliferation of large business ventures such as Celtel Malawi in Malawi.