SMS
for Burmese mobile phones - The
Irrawaddy, October 10, 2005
GSM mobile phone users in Burma will now be allowed to use
SMS, or Short Message Service, for the first time. According to
reports from Rangoon, the Ministry of Communications, Posts and
Telegraphs has confirmed to users that SMS would be available
starting on October 2. Messages must be sent in English at a cost
of 25 kyat (US 2 cents). All messages will be censored, and any
text deemed "seditious" will be flagged. Analog cellular
service was launched in Rangoon in 1993, and the GSM system went
online in 2002. It is estimated that there are less than 200,000
cell phones in use in the country, with most used by the military
and Burma's politically connected business elite. The official
price of a GSM phone is 1 million kyat (about $1,100), but on
the black market such phones sell for more than $2,000.
SMS for Burmese mobile phones
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