A master plan has been drawn up for a five-year project for Myanmar’s telecommunication sector, according to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
The plan was drawn up with the help of the Asia Development Bank (ADB) to detail expectations for the telecommunications sector by 2020. The master plan in draft was announced in July and comments were invited.
It expected the availability of mobile phones, landlines and satellite communication networks would reach 90 per cent of the population. It said half the population should have access to fast internet of around 7.2 megabytes per second and 85 per cent should have online access.
Telephones were available to only 10 per cent of citizens in 2013, reaching 40 per cent this year. Foreign investment in the telecommunications reached US$2.8 billion and the sector is expected to create about 250,000 jobs in the next 15 years, said the draft.
From 60 to 70 per cent of mobile phone users had a smartphone and the average usage of internet per month was around 500 megabytes, it said. (Courtesy of Eleven Myanmar)
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