Final Report Chapter 5 Mid-Term Development Plan Figure 5.3-3 Strengthening of Metro-Networks and LTE Networks in Mandalay Area One more important point to respond the rapid increase of the demand for internet services is in the capability of National Gateway (NGW). Comparing with the voice telephone, the internet service that uses the international circuit very frequently, requires to enhance the capability of the NGW. Enhancing capability of the NGW can be realized through the network urgent improvement program Myanmar prepared by Japan. However, it is not enough for ever increasing demand of internet services, though it can be enough for one-time increase of demand in internet services. Consequently, as the first step, Yangon’s NGW should be strengthen, however, it is preferred that these three large cities should have the NGW respectively in the mid-term program. As to internet, after expanding the capacity of the internet services and improving their quality, up to the other cities, and rural areas, the internet services are to be extended to the whole country keeping improved quality, however, such method may be the same as in the core networks or in the access network. (4) IP Address At present internet services are provided through IPv4, the number of v4 global address assigned to this country is extremely low. At present, through widely use of the private addresses and tide over a crisis. According to the above mentioned Communication Network Urgent Improvement Program, expansion of the sub-network (32bit from 30 bit) is planned to study. However, there should be a 5-29