Myanmar to add 55,000 CDMA phones in coastal areas
Monday, 9 July 2007
YANGON, July 8 (Xinhua): Myanmar is making arrangements to add 55,000 more CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) phone lines in coastal areas to facilitate people there for communication links, according to the telecommunication authorities today.
A total of 40 townships in the coastal areas of Rakhine, Tanintharyi, Mon and Ayeyawaddy will be given priority to installation of such phone lines as these areas require better communication links for getting informed about weather conditions in prevention against any natural disaster that may strike, the state-run Myanmar Posts and Telecommunication (MPT) said.
According to the MPT, about 30,000 CDMA phones have been installed in Yangon, Mandalay and Mogok.
Meanwhile, Myanmar has also planned to introduce 140,000 more GSM (global system for mobile) phones or double the present figures to facilitate communication links in the country, projecting to complete in the years ahead. The installation of the GSM phones cover more than 10 areas such as Myitkyina, Pakkokku, Shwebo, Tounggoo, Kawthoung, Myawaddy and Pha-an, and the project will extend to include more areas in Yangon, Mandalay and Pyin Oo Lwin, earlier reports said.
Meanwhile, the telecommunication authorities are adding increased number of base transceiver stations in Yangon to help solve current pressing demand for improved mobile phone links.
There has been over 140,000 mobile phones in Myanmar as of now since the 1990s when such phones were first introduced. According to the state-run Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications, GSM phones in Myanmar can auto-roam 21 townships far up to the border areas also mainly covering Monywa,
Mawlamyine, Bagan, Ngwesaung, Chaungtha, Taunggyi, Kyaingtong, Tachilek, Lashio and Muse in addition to Yangon and Mandalay.
A total of 40 townships in the coastal areas of Rakhine, Tanintharyi, Mon and Ayeyawaddy will be given priority to installation of such phone lines as these areas require better communication links for getting informed about weather conditions in prevention against any natural disaster that may strike, the state-run Myanmar Posts and Telecommunication (MPT) said.
According to the MPT, about 30,000 CDMA phones have been installed in Yangon, Mandalay and Mogok.
Meanwhile, Myanmar has also planned to introduce 140,000 more GSM (global system for mobile) phones or double the present figures to facilitate communication links in the country, projecting to complete in the years ahead. The installation of the GSM phones cover more than 10 areas such as Myitkyina, Pakkokku, Shwebo, Tounggoo, Kawthoung, Myawaddy and Pha-an, and the project will extend to include more areas in Yangon, Mandalay and Pyin Oo Lwin, earlier reports said.
Meanwhile, the telecommunication authorities are adding increased number of base transceiver stations in Yangon to help solve current pressing demand for improved mobile phone links.
There has been over 140,000 mobile phones in Myanmar as of now since the 1990s when such phones were first introduced. According to the state-run Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications, GSM phones in Myanmar can auto-roam 21 townships far up to the border areas also mainly covering Monywa,
Mawlamyine, Bagan, Ngwesaung, Chaungtha, Taunggyi, Kyaingtong, Tachilek, Lashio and Muse in addition to Yangon and Mandalay.