Final Report Chapter 3 Development Status and Problem in ICT Sector - To develop e-Governance. Regarding the above-mentioned (1) ICT infrastructure, the target is to raise telephone density to 50% by 2015 (increase of about 30 million lines in 5 years). In 2012, a new target of raising the phone density in fixed and mobile phone density on step by step up to 80% by 2016 was hammered out. - 10% by 2013; - 27% by 2014; - 50% by 2015; and - 75-80% by 2016, Even if development is centered on mobile phones, it is assumed that achievement of the telephone density of 80% will be accompanied by many difficulties in Myanmar where the urbanization ratio is about 30%. However, while paying attention to the fact that this density of 80% has already started going about itself, it is required to study contents of this project. In Japan and Myanmar summit held in April 2012, information and communication was discussed as an important issue, and cooperation in the information and communication field was confirmed by heads of both states. Development of laws was picked out as one of main targets of the Myanmar ICT Development Master Plan and Action Plan previously compiled by KOICA, but description about it was reduced in the Myanmar ICT Master Plan in 2011 as the result of considering processes of development of related laws. Reform of the information and communication sector in Myanmar has been progressing at a speed never experienced before. Under this situation, priority issues MPT executives consider are: (1) nation-wide development of Internet environments, (2) development of e-Government, and (3) HRD. In the speed of reform Myanmar faces, the environment is changing to such a degree that a plan will become obsolete within a half year. A variety of players act in the information communication sector, and their characters are starting to show up. The situation will be complicated from now on. An important thing at this time is to draw up an intermediate and long term plan hammering out strong vision and concept centring on the Myanmar people. The key is the scale and speed. It seems that description on information security related items was dropped out of the Master Plan. Actually, in the workshop hosted by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan on January 22-23, 2013, there was no presentation on information security from Myanmar side. Table 3.2-1 shows the list of Master Plan Study prepared in Myanmar up to the present. The government of Myanmar drew up an action plan described in Table 3.2-2 and has already been acting. In the meaning of developing a competitive environment, invitation to tender for giving licenses to new two communication carriers was announced in January 2013 in efforts to achieve the telephone density (50%) by 2015. 91 (Ninety one) entities from all over the world had submitted their expression of interest and 11 entities submitted their proposal. The Telecommunication Operator Tender Evaluation and Selection Committee established by the government on neutral position announced on July 27, 2013 the result of selection for two operators, i.e., Telenor Mobile Communications from Norway and Ooredoo from Qatar. Some 3-2