Final Report (3) Chapter 7 Outline of Scope of Works Scope of upgrade With regard to the upgrade plan for small cities, overview design on paper is underway as described in Chapter 6 Section 6.3, and as the actual situation is not clear, the following preconditions were established and an improvement plan was formulated. Precondition: Selection of target area (a) At present, towns with a population of around 50,000 or over located near a relay station on the backbone optical fiber route currently underway in the Project for Urgent Improvement of Communication Networks implemented by the Japanese Government have been chosen as small cities. An overview of the 10 selected cities is shown in Table 7.1.5-1. (b) The town center is less than 10km from the relay station on the optical fiber route mentioned above. (c) The area has a commercial power supply. Improvement Plan (a) Construction of LTE access network ・ The backbone relay stations are connected to the LTE base station in the target area by optical fiber cable (aerial system). ・ The LTE base station and LTE terminals are connected by direct communication and Wi-Fi routers. (b) The network configuration will be such as to allow construction of an optical fiber subscriber network (FTTx) in preparation for future demand. The network configuration described above is shown in Fig. 7.1.-13. (4) Survey results of medium and small cities scattered in 3 metro cities 10 medium and small cities which might be satisfied with the above mentioned precondition are surveyed at the final stage of the series of the study (survey) and the outline of survey result is shown in the Table 7.1-5 Medium and Small cities surveyed. The detail data is shown in the Attachment. The survey result has turned out the following: (a) Surveyed 10 cities except Zegone are satisfied with previously mentioned precondition. (b) Surveyed 10 cities are satisfied with previously mentioned precondition of (b) and (c). (c) Surveyed 10 cities will have not big problems for the implementation on previously mentioned planning to be upgraded. (d) 5 cities out of 10 have no internet subscribers and one city (Taungtwinkyi) out of another 5 cities has only 5 internet cafés but no ordinal subscribers. 2 cities have at most 30 subscribers (ADSL) each and remained 2 cities where are comparatively high populated areas have 100 – 200 subscribers only. Thus, IT network composed of LTE is concluded to be very appropriate and important plan in these area. (e) There are some cities to be expected to develop into industries and agricultures. For 7-23