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Subject: Re: [burmanet2-l] Myanmar inaugurates telecom exchange from China

So the Chinese are going to monitor all the Burmese calls now?


TIN KYI wrote:
> 
> Myanmar inaugurates telecom exchange from China
> 09:08 a.m. Jan 26, 1999 Eastern
> YANGON, Myanmar (Reuters) - Telephone communication became a bit easier in
> military-ruled Myanmar Tuesday, a nation with one of the world's lowest
> numbers of telephones per head, with the inauguration of a 3,000-line
> exchange donated by China.
> 
> Managing director of Posts and Telecommunications Col. Maung Maung Tin said
> at a ceremony that the new automatic exchange was manufactured by China's
> Shanghai Bell Company.
> 
> He said there were currently 225,164 telephones in Myanmar working through
> 523 exchanges against 66,707 in 1988. Of the total, 99,396 were in the
> capital Yangon.
> 
> The phone density in Yangon remained very low at just 0.44 per 100 people,
> compared to 49 per 100 in Japan and 52.61 per 100 in Singapore.
> 
> The density for the country as a whole is one phone for every 208 citizens.
> 
> The colonel said arrangements were underway to install 20,000 Code Division
> Multiple Access cordless phone lines in Yangon in the near future.