YANGON, Feb 01, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Myanmar telecommunication authorities will add 350,000 lines to Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 800 megahertz fixed lines service being launched in two major cities of Yangon and Mandalay to provide better telecommunication services, a senior official with the state-run Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) confirmed Monday.
The MPT, which is the state-owned telecommunications provider, previously intended to install about 100,000 lines in Yangon and about 50,000 lines in Mandalay for the CDMA-800 MHz lines, which are allowed to general public for subscription with 500,000 Kyats (about 500 U.S. dollars) each.
The MPT, a sole service provider in the country, has also allowed to the line subscribers in Mandalay for wider availability of the network instead of in assigned townships, the MPT official said, adding that it also plans to open the limitation of the phones access in Yangon within two months.
The phone lines, which have eight digit numbers and start with 73 in Yangon or 93 in Mandalay, are set to use with the prepaid top-up cards marketed by Elite Tech company, owned by Myanmar business tycoon Tayza.
Transferring ownership or hiring back of the phone lines are not legal in Myanmar according to the authorities. However, there are sales or hiring of the phone lines as the demand always much more than the supply.
In the black market, a CDMA 800 MHz line sells for about 700, 000 Kyats though the official initial set up fees is 500,000 Kyats, one of the sources in the black market told Xinhua news agency.
The launch of the CDMA 800 MHz phone lines have made the decrease of sales and hiring of the other phone lines, including Global System for Mobile (GSM) and CDMA 450 MHz phones, in the lucrative black market, said black market sources in Yangon.
Moreover, the selling price of GSM and CDMA 450 MHz phones have decreased for 200,000 Kyats as these phone lines are sold in the black market with 1.65 million Kyats per line though they were sold with about 1.85 million Kyats previously, a source said.
Fixed terminals and handsets, mainly imported from China, are available in the market.
The MPT statistics shows that Myanmar has so far installed 45, 1673 landline phones and 480,061 lines of mobile phones while 345 auto exchange offices have been established.
The statistics indicated that MPT has installed 45,620 landline phones, 91,540 lines of mobile phones, 46 exchange offices and 14 microwave links during 2009-2010 fiscal year ending March.
The MPT targeted to install during 2010-2011 fiscal year 40,000 landline phones, 130,000 mobile phone lines and 70 auto exchange offices.
Source :http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/02/01/4598077.htm
The MPT, which is the state-owned telecommunications provider, previously intended to install about 100,000 lines in Yangon and about 50,000 lines in Mandalay for the CDMA-800 MHz lines, which are allowed to general public for subscription with 500,000 Kyats (about 500 U.S. dollars) each.
The MPT, a sole service provider in the country, has also allowed to the line subscribers in Mandalay for wider availability of the network instead of in assigned townships, the MPT official said, adding that it also plans to open the limitation of the phones access in Yangon within two months.
The phone lines, which have eight digit numbers and start with 73 in Yangon or 93 in Mandalay, are set to use with the prepaid top-up cards marketed by Elite Tech company, owned by Myanmar business tycoon Tayza.
Transferring ownership or hiring back of the phone lines are not legal in Myanmar according to the authorities. However, there are sales or hiring of the phone lines as the demand always much more than the supply.
In the black market, a CDMA 800 MHz line sells for about 700, 000 Kyats though the official initial set up fees is 500,000 Kyats, one of the sources in the black market told Xinhua news agency.
The launch of the CDMA 800 MHz phone lines have made the decrease of sales and hiring of the other phone lines, including Global System for Mobile (GSM) and CDMA 450 MHz phones, in the lucrative black market, said black market sources in Yangon.
Moreover, the selling price of GSM and CDMA 450 MHz phones have decreased for 200,000 Kyats as these phone lines are sold in the black market with 1.65 million Kyats per line though they were sold with about 1.85 million Kyats previously, a source said.
Fixed terminals and handsets, mainly imported from China, are available in the market.
The MPT statistics shows that Myanmar has so far installed 45, 1673 landline phones and 480,061 lines of mobile phones while 345 auto exchange offices have been established.
The statistics indicated that MPT has installed 45,620 landline phones, 91,540 lines of mobile phones, 46 exchange offices and 14 microwave links during 2009-2010 fiscal year ending March.
The MPT targeted to install during 2010-2011 fiscal year 40,000 landline phones, 130,000 mobile phone lines and 70 auto exchange offices.
Source :http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/02/01/4598077.htm
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