Final Report Chapter 5 Mid-Term Development Plan limit to apply this system continuously, and it may affect badly to the service quality. Therefore it is necessary to introduce devices workable with IPv6. Introduction of IPv6 requires the engineer who can maintain and manage the devices workable with v6, no. of such engineers are not so sufficient in the world, at present, therefore promoting such engineers should be required. This problems will be discussed in Paragraph 5.4. (5) Improvement of Social Values of Internet Differing from the other telephone services, the user of the internet is required to have some degree of the IT literacy. Within the cities, the individual persons may have a lot of opportunity to enhance the literacy, however, in the rural areas, it is very difficult and may produce problems, such as “digital divide”or the problem of difference between locations. To solve such problems, it will be important to accelerate the use of the internet. This can be an initiator to induce the local activity. This problem should also be described in Paragraph 5.4 Improvement in personal training and Business Management. 5.3.4 International Communication Services According to expansion of domestic communication services, the demand for the international services will also be increased further. Especially, increase of internet service demand will become increase of international communication demand. Regarding the enhancement of the capability of the NGW (National Gate Way), it has been described in (3) of Paragraph 5.3.3. It is necessary to expand the transmission paths for international communication services. The transmission paths of the international communication is divided into the international communication path for domestic portion and the transmission path over the national border.. The transmission paths running over the border may be divided into the cross-border portion, circuits through the submarine cable and the circuits by the satellite communications. Among them, the domestic portion of the terrestrial cross-border transmission path are shown as a core network in Figure 5.2-4 (Route to Muse, Tama, Tarchileit, Myanwaddy). These routes will be developed as a part of the core networks. As for the international communication services by the sub-marine cable, as the first step, the existing submarine cable (SEA-ME-WE3) will be utilized up to the maximal range. To do so, the range of the route as shown in Figure 5.3-4 will be expanded through introduction of DWDM. Because of using the existing fiber optic, it should be proceeded earlier. For increasing traffic in international communications, use of a new submarine cable is studied. One of the possible cases is to join SEAMEWE 5. The transmission path in Myanmar including the landing point in Myanmar is shown in Figure 5.2-5 Core Network (Route to Ngwehsaung). A part of the route from the landing point, Ngwehsaung to Muse close to China of a part of the optical fiber cable cores will be a property of China to be employed as a terrestrial portion of SEA-ME-WE5 to be used for connecting the cable with China. The other possibility is to lay a new submarine cable between two countries. Assuming laying such a new submarine cable between two countries, the transmission path in Myanmar including the landing station may be same as shown in Figure 5.3-4. Countries sharing this cable are probably, Thailand, Malaysia, and/or Singapore. This cable will also employed also as a portion of 5-30