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Ministry Of Communications, Posts and Telegraphs
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Myanma Posts and Telecommunications
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Myanma Posts and
Telecommunications is a government enterprise functioning under the Minsitry of
Communications, Posts and Tele- for the provision of postal, telegraph and hone
services to the public.To achieve advancement and smooth running of
administration, social and economic opment of the Union of Myanmar, Myanma
Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) is vi striving its best to render domestic
and interna- and telecommunication services with the modern way of thinking.
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Development of Domestic Postal Works
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Due to expansion
and upgrading total mber of post offices was increased to 1231 from 1185 and
full function post offices was increased to 675 from 625 during the period
I-4-95 to 14-11-97.
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643 full function
post offices out of 1206 post offices during the fiscal year 1995-96, 662 full
function post offices out of 1,222 post offices during 1995-96 and 675 full
function post offices out of 1,231 port offices up to 14-11-97 were expanded
and upgraded.
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Regarding yearly
increment and volume of Work 79.99 million kyats for postal articles and 947.23
million kyats for money order during 1995-96,80.64 million kyats for postal
articles and 1,833.5 million kyats for money order during 1996-97 and 47.6
million kyats for postal articles and 486.92 million kyats for money order up
to 14-11-97.
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Expansion of Domestic and International Mail Transpoartation, Work
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For the quick and
better of postal delivery, international transportation of mail by air was
increased to 5 days a week from 3 days. 21,864 parcels and 260,499 packets
during 1995-96, 25,159 parcels and 332,757 packets during 1996-97 and 15,727
parcels and 240,115 packets up to 14-11-97 were transported abroad.
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New Arrangement For Express Delivery
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In 23 townships of
Yangon City, the practice of delivery two times per day was introduced in 29
Post Offices to expedite the postal delivery starting from 21-8-93. Saturday
postal delivery was introduced in 28 Post Offices of Yangon City. Night postal
sorting system was introduced in Yangon General Post Office.
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Issue of Commemorative Stamps
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Commemorative
stamps were issued to mark drug abuse control, 50th Anniversary of United
Nation, Diamond Jubilee of Yangon University, Visit Myanmar Year 1996,
International Writing Week 1996, 50th Anniversary of UNICEF and 30th
Anniversary of ASEAN.
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Postal Services Supporting Commerce, Social, Economic and Education
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| To support such
activities, MPT introduced expedite money order delivery services in 58
townships including Yangon and Mandalay. The service found 100 % satisfactory.
Now, such services are provided in between Yangon and 54 towns and in between
Mandalay and 33 towns in duplex quick transfer of money order. |
| The same service
was also provided for the hostel students in the various universities of Yangon
and Mandalay. |
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Establishment of New Telegraph Offices
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| Myanma Posts and
Telecommunications during the period from 1.4.95 to 14.11.97 had taken action
to establish new and upgrading of 21 telegraph offices.
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Computerised Telegraph Service
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| IBM compatible
personal computers were introduced to apply them for telegraph services using
software for Myanmar alphabets. The first service was started on 24.3.93 in
telegraph offices in Yangon and Mandalay replacing old teleprinters.. In
addition, such system was applied to those towns which have heavy traffic.
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Domestic Bureau Fax Services
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Domestic Bureau
Fax services was started on 1-9-92 in 7 towns including Yangon and Mandalay
continuously 56 big and small twons are provided with the same services. |
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| Number of
registered public telex subscriber on 31.3.91 was 1,213 and 2,456 as of
14.11.97. |
Fiscal
year |
Outgoing
message |
Imcoming
message |
Fax revenue
(on million Kyats) |
| 1991-92 |
57,415 |
68,424 |
6.6337 |
| 1992-93 |
53,440 |
58,453 |
6.206 |
| 1993-94 |
57,685 |
57,195 |
6.707 |
| 1994-95 |
38,643 |
34,089 |
4.679 |
| 1995-96 |
27,575 |
17,809 |
3.399 |
| 1996-97 |
23,936 |
13,572 |
3.013 |
| 1997-98 |
8,634 |
4,829 |
1.099 |
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(up to 14-11-97)
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| Preparations for
public fax service began on I -7-91 at Yangon Central Telegraph Office and the
service was rendered to the public on 19-9-91. At present, there are 1828
registered public fax users and there are 40 corresponding countries with
Myanma Posts and Telecommu From 1992 to November 1997, incoming fax messages
and outgoing fax messages were observed as 52,775 and 93,773 respectively and
the tax revenue received was 40,433 Kyats in million. |
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Express Delivery by Motor Cycle
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| Myanma Posts and
Telecommunications uses the fastest means of transportation such as motor
cycles for express delivery of telegraph messages. The system was started on 16
September 1992 at the telegraph offices under special arrangement. The systems
is now applied in Yangon, Taunggyi, Pathein, Sagaing, Monywa, Magwe,
Mawlamyine, Myitkyina, Sittwe, Tachileik, Hakha, Pakoku, Pa-an and Baum
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Installation of Long Distance Telephone Lines
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| From 1-4-95 to
14-11-97, 857 wire miles of long distance telephone lines were installed for
the promotion of smooth communication. |
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Expansion of Local Telephone Service
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| Local telephone
lines are being expanded al the exchange offices of respective states and
divisions. During the said period, 20,506 and 29,788 direct exchange lines in
the fiscal year 1995-96 and 1996-9 7 respectively and 12,700 direct exchange
lines as of 14-11-97 were expanded. |
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Telephone Exchanges and Direct Exchange Lines
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| In all the States
and divisions, there were the total number 455 telephone exchange asof 31-3-95.
As 45 exchanges are added, the total number of exchanges as of 14-11-97 were
increased to 500. In the same manner, due to addition of 62,994 direct exchange
lines to the figure of 137,337 in 31-3-95, the figure as of 14-11-97 was
increased to 200,331 direct exchange lines. During the period mentioned, 25,806
telephone lines were equipped in 49 towns by making use of the fund raised by
the public. |
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Services for Development of Border Areas and National Races
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| For the development
of border areas and national races, a plan was made on the basis of financial
year by making use of the fund for the development of communication sector in
border areas and also using mormal budget of Myanma Posts and Comminications.
During financial year 1995-96, 11 number of grade 5 post offices, 5 radio
telegraph offices, 4 manual exchanges with 30 lines capacity, 72 line miles of
long distance telephone lines and 5 radio telephone systems, during financial
year 1996-97, 8 number of grade 5 post offices, 3 radio telegraph ofces, 7
manual exchanges with capacity of 30 lines each and 49 line miles of long
distance telephone lines and 1 number of grade 5 post office up to 14-11-97
were implemented by making use of the fund provided for the development of the
border areas |
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the normal budget of Myanma posts and communications, two radio telegraph
offices with TW-7000 equipment, one number of 50 miles local exchange switch
board, I number of local exchange switch board expanded from 30 to 50 lines, 63
line miles of long distance telephone lines and system of 4 channel open wire
carrier, were implemented during 1995-96 During 1996-97, 8 number of grade 5
post offices, 3 radio telegraph offices, 1 radio telephone systems (Phone
Patch), 56 line miles of long distance telephone lines and as of 14-11-97 one
radio telegraph office were commissioned.
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Installation of Telephones under Special Arrangement
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| The System is
introduced in Yangon Auto Telephone Network starting from 16-9-92. The initial
installation charge at that time was US$ 1100 and increased to US$ 1500 on
15-12-94. On 19-2-97, the system was changed and fees were collected in kyats
with 200,000 kyats as initial installation charge. Starting from the time to
use special system up to 14-1 1-97, 16,744 telephones were installed with the
US$ basis and 4,955 telephones were installed on kyats basis, thus bringing the
total of 21,699 telephones installed under the said special programme.
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Expansion of Telecommunication using Revolving Fund
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| By making use of
the above fund, 1859 Digital European Cordless Telecommunication System (DECT)
telephones were equipped to the subscribers. The following is the break down of
the list. |
| Date |
Location |
Capacity |
No. of telephones |
| 2-5-97 |
Pakokku |
400 |
398 |
| 30-1-97 |
Twante |
550 |
449 |
| 30-1-97 |
Monywa |
350 |
192 |
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Mandalay |
1700 |
764 |
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3000 |
1859 |
| Trunk radio system
for taxis and other vechicles for eleven private companies was introduced in
Yangon with the initial capacity 175 radio terminals. Code Division Multiple
Access (CDMA) wireless local loop with the initial capacity of 3,000 lines in
Yangon was, commissioned on 17-10-97. In the same way on 12-I 1-97 packet
switching system for data communication was commisioned with the initial
capacity of 300 lines in Yangon and 80 lines in Mandalay. |
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Telecommunication Expansion Project
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| With a viwe to
fulfill the need of people living. in respective states and divisions in
Myanrnar, MPT rendered the project by implementing new digital exchanges,
replacement of manual exchanges with digital exchanges, new micro-wave routes
and expansion of microwave channel capacity |
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project,expansion and installation of new exchanges with the total capacity of
17,000 lines in Yangon for 7 exchanges, expan and new installation of five
exchanges in Pyin-U-Lwin Sagaing, Shwebo Loikaw Pa-an with the total capacity
of 3000 lines and 4 new digital micro-wave routes linking
Mandalay-Pyin-U-Lwin-Lasho Mandalay- Mandalay-Meiktila-Loikaw and
Mandalay-Sagaing-Pakoku were implemented during 1995-96 and completed during
1996-97.
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exchanges in Yangon with the total capacity of 7,000 lines, I exchange each in
Magwe Mandalay (Myothit) Mawlamyine, Pathein and Sittwe with the total capacity
of 6,000 lines, new digital micro-wave routes linking Mandalay-Myitkyina-Bhamaw
Mandalay- Lasho-Muse-Kyukoke, Mandalay-Hakha and Dawei-Myeik were being
implemented starting from 1996-97 under regional telecommunication development
project and the installation works are to be completed according to the
schedule.
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Domestic Satellite Communication
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| Domestic Satellite
Communication, which is one of the engineering branch of overseas communication
had introduced domestic satellite communication ground stations in Myitkyina,
Lashio, Bamaw Kalay, Hakha, Tamu, Kanty, Muse, Kawthaung, Myeik, Kengtung,
Tachileik, Myawaddy, Budhitaung with a HUB station in Yangon and enabling those
towns they posses nationwide coverage in telephone connection. |
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Expansion of International Telecommunication Circuits
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| Standard B
satellite communication earth station and analog international gateway switch
with 60 voice channels for the international telephone service had been
operated till March, 1994. Due to development in domestic and international
commercial activities, it was found necessary to introduce better and more
reliable overseas telecommunication system. Under international
telecommunication improvement project, MPT introduced new standard. A stallite
communication earth station which is linked with INTELSAT-6 60 degrees east
geostationary Indian-ocean satellite, new digital international gateway switch,
digital micro-wart system linking between earth station and gate way switch and
optical transmission system in between international gateway swithch and local
exchanges in Yangon, This system was commissioned on 4.3.94 access to 14 via
countries with 828 digital voice grade channels. |
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Implementation of New Microwave Route
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| In conjunction
with the installed new digs automatic exchanges, new digital micro-wa routes
were implemented for the links Taunggyi-Kalaw, Yangon-Twante-Maubin,
Poap-Pakokku, Mandalay-Shwebo, Pa- Popa-Kyaukpadaung, Thityargouk-
Taungdwingyi, Mayangone-Thanlyin-Kyauktan, Pha-an-Mawlamyine, Loikaw-Meiktila-
Mandalay, Mandalay-Pakokku and Mandalay- Lashio.
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Extension of Telephone existing Micro wave Channels
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| Programme for
channel expansion in existing microwave routes was carrid out to the
requirement of the towns with P automatic exchanges and where number telephones
are significantly increased; and 60 channels in Yangon-Dawei link, 24 channels
in Mandalay- Sagaing link, 60 channels in Mandalay Meiktila-Popa link, 120
channels in Yangon Mandalay link, 60 channels in Yangon-Pa-an link 24 channels
in Yangon-Taungoo link, 22 channels in Mandalay-Myingyan link, 24 channels in
Yangon-Daik-U link, 24 channels it Yangon-Myaungmya link, 60 channels it
Yangon-Hinthada link, 12 channels in Ngaputaw-Pathein link, 24 channels in
Mandalay- Wundwin link respectively. |
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Implementation of Cellular Mobile Telephone System
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| Cellular mobile
telephone system in Yangon was started on 8.12.93 with the initial capacity of
1,000. The capacity at present has been increased to 7000 and at present, there
are 7,185 cellular mobile telephone user in Yangon Similary, cellular mobile
telephone system with the initial capacity of 1,000 was introduced in Mandalay
on 21.3.96 and the system was now terminated with 1, 1110 end users terminals.
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Implementation of Automatic Radio Telephone System
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| To bring in quick
implementation, automatic radiotelephone system using latest technology was
first introduced in Yangon on 2.12.96. At the following table shows installed
capacity and number o1 telephone as of 14.11.97. |
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Extension of Open Wire Carrier Terminals
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requirement of the medium and small towns, I 8 sets of 3 channels, 3 sets of 4
channels, 8 sets of 6 channels, 16 sets of 12 channels carrier system were
extensively implemented up to 14-I 1-97. |
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Department Of Meteorology And Hydrology
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| To assist the
various undertakings of State organizations and all walks of life and to
safeguard the State property being dammed from natural disasters, the
Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) is issuing timely weather
forecasts cure warnings and flood bulletins warnings |
| DMH is also
supplying meteorological hydrological/ seismological and agrometeoro- data,
racords, reports, bulletin, study documents and suggestions to State organiza-
engaged in various sectors such as transport ations, defence, livestock
breedings and fisheries, agriculture, energy production, constructions,
industries, feasibility studies of national projects etc. to be cost-etrective. |
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DHM has carried out the following tasks of observatories/ offices; establishing
one meteorological station in pauk and three hydrological stations in Bawlake
Myawady and Shwesayan upgrading four Meteorology or Hydrology stations to Met,
or Hydro stations at Kunhein, Myinmu, Bawlake and Pakokku and establishing 16
raingauge stations at Ye-pya village (Dawei) Heinda Mine (Dawei) Kyon-ma-nge
village (Wakema), Thayet-tapin village (Kyauktaw), Township Agricultural office
(Kamine Township), Agricul- firm (Shwepyi-thar Township), Lonpi village
(Falam), Minywa Irrigation Office (Tha- Township), Kin-pun-chaung village
Kyaik-Hto-Township), Thit-yar-bin village (Kyun-Hla Township), Mai-kyon village
(Hlaingbwe Township), Mal Kut, Artillery and Armour Training g School (Meiktila
Township), Pha-saung, Zokwa and Mohlaing. The Aviation Meteorological Office at
Nauhsay in southern Shan State was inaugurated on 21, August 1996. As the DMH
is undertaking forecasting, daily weather news and State / Division-wise
weather forecasts have been telecast by Myanma Radio and Television Department
and Myawady since 12 August 1997.
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Location |
Installed Capacity |
Number of Subscribers |
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Yangon |
2000 |
1817 |
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Maubin |
700 |
648 |
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Pagan, Nyaung-U |
450 |
434 |
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Pa-an |
210 |
200 |
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Mandalay |
250 |
219 |
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Mawlamyine |
240 |
210 |
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3,850 |
3,528 |
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