Mobile Internet In Burma

Yesterday, I have read one of the good news about our golden land. It was that all of the GSM mobile lines in Rangoon and Nay Pyi Taw are accessible for mobile internet. I have gone through a few comments regarding to this news on FB, saying that is its speed fast enough? It really doesn't matter. It is good enough to have access internet through mobile. Improvement on its service will come later. (The reason I am saying this is mobile broadband internet in first world country, like Singapore also damm slow in peak hour. Yesterday, I saw this news' title on FB shared by one of my friends about mobile internet in Myanmar in the evening and click it to read. I got frustrated of very slow mobile broadband, finally I could read that news while I reached back home only.)

A decade ago, in 2000, while we were going for field-service to Myanmar telecom offices, granted in junction with Ministry of Technology and Ministry of Communication, we got chance to access major facilities of telecommunication. Since those days, we understood that building of infra-structure of fiber link covering the whole country was in progress. So, I believed now that link was already completed because government announced 30 millions lines will be issued within 5 years period.

And again, one of the news said that Burma is planning to launch own satellite for broadening its telecommunication. Hopefully it will be in fast pace and done in short period of time.

After reading these news, I can see that there is a dawn of fast pace development of our home land in near future. We need to get ourselves prepared to be able to adapt the fast moving development of our country because the two major elements of development, electricity and telecommunication is in place and then rapid changes and development is unstoppable.