Myanmar Launches New CDMA Network

The Myanmar (formerly Burma) telecommunications authorities have launched CDMA mobile cellular phone system in Mogok. The CDMA system, inaugurated by the Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) today, comprises one radio station each in Mogok and nearby Kyatpyin areas, each having a capacity of operating 500 CDMA lines at a time, official newspaper The New Light of Myanmar reported on Friday. Meanwhile, Myanmar is also introducing GSM phone system in the country and is striving to make 70,000 lines and 30,000 lines respectively available in Yangon and Mandalay, the two major cities of Myanmar."

Posted to the site on 21st August 2000