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Communications in Myanmar
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All communications in Myanmar are controlled by the government.
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Installation of telephones, and the cost of calling, are prohibitively expensive for most people. To call overseas for two minutes would cost more than most earn in a month.
Telephones - main lines in use: 158,000 (1995) These are mostly in the capital Yangon.
Telephones - mobile cellular: 2,007 (1995)
Telephone system: meets minimum requirements for local and intercity service for business and government; international service is good
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations 3 (1998)
Radios: 4.2 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 4 (1998)
Televisions: 260,000 (1997)
Press
- Kyehmon (Burmese:
) - state-run daily - The New Light of Myanmar (Burmese: Myanma A-lin) - English and Burmese language organ of SPDC
- The Myanmar Times (Burmese: Myanma Taing) - private-run English-language weekly
Television
- TV Myanmar - state-run, operated by Myanmar TV and Radio Department - broadcasts in Burmese, Arakanese, Shan, Karen, Kachin, Kayah, Chin, Mon and English
- MRTV-3 - state-run international TV service
- MRTV-4 - pay TV service (only available in Yangon)
- TV Myawady - army-run network
- Democratic Voice of Burma - Burmese students in exile launched it since two years ago
Radio
- Radio Myanmar - state-run, operated by Myanmar TV and Radio Department
- Yangon City FM - entertainment-based, operated by Yangon City Development Committee
- Democratic Voice of Burma - opposition station based in Norway, broadcasts via shortwave
News agency
- Myanmar News Agency (MNA) - state-run
The government does not allow access to all the internet, adult sites, anti-government, and free email web sites are blocked. (See Myanmar Wide Web.)
There are only 2 Internet Service Providers, BaganNET [1] and MPT [2].
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