Final Report 3.3 Chapter 3 Development Status and Problem in ICT Sector Current Status and Problem in Communication Sector 3.3.1 Telephone Density ITU (International Telecommunication Union) announced "Wireless Broadband Master Plan for the Union of Myanmar" in October 2012 and reported the outline of Myanmar in the document as in Table 3.3-1. However, it should be noted that this is not officially approved by the Myanmar government as the ICT Master Plan drawn up by KOICA was not. In addition, it was made as part of "Asia Pacific ICT Master Plan 2015: Object countries Nepal, Samoa, Viet Nam, and Myanmar." At the time of 2012 when the report was compiled, Myanmar set forth 30 million subscribers (mobile phones) in 5 years between 2011 and 2015 as its target. Furthermore, the mobile phone business was planned to be run by private carriers, and names of ZTE and Huawei were already cited. Table 3.3-1 Communication infrastructure in Myanmar (as of 2012) Indicators Statistic Telephone density(*) 10.0% Telephone line number(*) Fixed：604,464 Mobile：5,437,450 Backbone line Major cities are connected with optical fibre International optical fibre India, China, Thailand, Laos International line Marine cable and satellite Last-mile line Dedicated WBB access and MPT satellite Internet host 25,690 Internet backbone capacity 4.385 Gbit/s 52, 071 FTTH users (6,500) 0.44 %（per whole capita） Internet connection Internet user Public access centre International line number 2,500+ 2 (NGN-IP-IGW / DMS-300 with IP trunk 500(E1) 4,627 Internet gateway 1 IPS（communication carrier） 2 (MPT & YPT) PSTN exchange office 913 Mobile switching centre 14 Transit exchange office 11 Microwave station Satellite communication 340 2,065 (MPT satellite terminals)/ 1 (INTELSAT ES) + 11 VSAT stations International gateway Source：Wireless Broad Band Master Plan for the Union of Myanmar (*) as of 2012, http://itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics, MPT statistical data As of 2012, the subscriber numbers of fixed phones and mobile phones in the whole of 3-9