Final Report Chapter 5 Mid-Term Development Plan Source: Japan-Myanmar ICT Workshop (Jan 22, 2013) Figure 5.2-6 Service areas of Mobile Phone For the rural remote areas where no repeating communication network such as the core network and so on, the domestic satellite communication are providing the broadband services. In Myanmar, VSAT (Telephone circuit) and IPSTAR (Broadband) are provided. The IPSTAR terminals provide four channels of telephone and one circuit of Internet. (Frequency bands used are Ku-band and C-band. At present, the IPSTAR which can be used for the broadband is increasing. According to the home page of the MPT ( February, 2013 ), total number of the VSAT terminals is 13 and the total number of the IPSTAR is 900, however, according to the staff there, 10 terminals and approx. 2800 terminals, respectively. (It is 11 terminals and 2,065 terminals according to ITU MP) Satellites, earth stations in use are given in Table 5.2-5. In addition, composition of the domestic satellite communication is shown in Figure 5.2-7. 5-14