Myanmar mobile VoIP usage 'set for boost'

People in Myanmar will soon be able to use VoIP services via mobile phones, it has been claimed.

According to the Myanmar Post News, a cable network called Fibre-to-the-Home has now been installed in the country.

The service can provide VoIP, as well as more than 20 international and local TV channels, fax and broadband internet.

It will be provided in Yangon, Mandalay and Pyin Oo Lwin in the next two months, enabling users to connect via video call using their mobile phone.

Myanmar is currently building further high-speed internet links with its neighbours, including India, China and Thailand.

These connections will be in addition to proposed links with Bangladesh, Vietnam and Laos.

This news comes after new research by handheld device maker Ericsson revealed the number of mobile broadband users is expected to top one billion by the end of 2011, as worldwide take-up doubles.

More than 40 per cent of this total will be in Asia, it added.