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Burmese mobile users allowed to SMS

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Burma's (Myanmar's) few mobile phone users are to be permitted use of SMS services for the very first time.

Burma's (Myanmar's) few mobile phone users are to be permitted use of SMS services for the very first time.

All messages are to be passed through a government censor which will single out "seditious messages" - in keeping with the country's militarised politics. As if this was not enough messages have to be sent in English and cost US$4 per message. 

Local reports suggest that the new service is not attracting a lot of interest...

There may well be less than 200,000 cellphones in use in Burma, most used by the military and those connected with it in the business community.



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