www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 150,000 additional CDMA-based limited mobility wireless phone connections will be deployed by state-run telco Myanma Posts and Telecommunications in two major cities of Myanmar namely Yangon and
Mandalay.

The existing CDMA networks will be expanded by 100,000 and 50,000 lines in Yaragon and Mandalay respectively. The process will cost around USD500 per new connection and it will use 800MHz equipment.

Active CDMA lines in Myanmar were 205,000 at the beginning of the year, against 375,000 GSM mobile users. The company is also planning to introduce video calling and other 3G applications over a planned W-CDMA mobile network.