DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/e6934d/myanmar_burma) has announced the addition of the "Myanmar (Burma) - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet" report to their offering.
Despite the elections held in 2010 the shadow of the military regime continues to hang over Myanmar and there is no sign of the much-needed structural reform in the telecom sector.
Myanmar's telecommunications sector continues to be dominated by the state-owned monopoly telephone service provider, Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT). With the military government's conservative approach to structural reform, it was not surprising that MPT continued to maintain its monopoly over the telecom sector, being the sole national telephone network operator.
Market highlights:
- Myanmar's mobile market has grown by 140% over the last three years.
- Of course, this mobile subscriber growth was from a low base and the reported 550,000 mobile subscribers early in 2011 still only constituted a penetration of just over 1%.
- Fixed-line subscriber numbers have been growing erratically; but growth has been similar in overall strength to the mobile market. Penetration remained low, however, still down at just over 1% by 2011.
- Internet penetration also continues to be disconcertingly low with accurate figures hard to obtain.
- Internet user penetration was around two per 1,000 of population by 2011; at the same time internet subscriptions were particularly tiny in number with penetration below one subscriber per 1,000 of population.
- Although broadband services were also small in number, one positive aspect was the progressive introduction of a variety of platforms, including more recently WiMAX services.
- While Myanmar still needs to seriously address regulatory reform, there was no evidence that any real progress had been made on this front.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Executive summary
2. Key statistics
3. Telecommunications market
4. Regulatory environment
5. Telecommunications infrastructure
6. Data market
7. Internet market
8. Broadcasting market
9. Mobile communications
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