A new mobile telephone application launched on February 9 makes anybody fluent in taxi-speak, its designers said last week.
The internet connection speed slowed to a crawl last week after a fibre-optic cable linking Myanmar to China broke on February 14, a Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications official said.
A recent article in The Myanmar Times made the argument that Myanmar would reap huge economic benefit from reducing the cost of a mobile phone connection (SIM cards) to zero.
Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications last week urged urged mobile phone users with illegally installed repeaters to switch them off immediately.
A local non-government organisation has launched a website that will publish detailed polling and survey information on political issues.
Prepaid FEC20 SIM cards were put back on the market from January 26, a spokesperson for the company producing the cards said last week.
Post-Paid GSM mobile telephone bills will be dropped at the end of February, a Yatanarpon Teleport official said last week. Billing in future will be paid either online or prepaid methods, said U Tun Tun Naing, the managing director of Yatanarpon Teleport’s call centre service.
Consumers can buy landline telephones from Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications for K650,000 through a five-installment payment plan, an official said last week.
The Customs department is trialling an online processing system at several major ports in Yangon that it expects will improve efficiency, the director of the department’s Export and Import Division, U Myo Myint Thein, said last month.
Consumers crying out for cheap mobile phone SIM cards for years might finally get their wish if a telecoms company receives government permission.
