BANGKOK - When the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said after his release, want to take advantage of new (and unknown to her) Internet technologies, an alarming wake-up alarm is sounded in the corridors of power of the 400 general residents km north of Rangon, the new capital Naypyidaw. But Jasmine was after the revolution and the revolts of the Middle East that the regime considered digital information far too "dangerous" for the "stability and public order." So not only Twitter and Youtoube always been banned, but Skype and other VoIP services (Internet audio technology) will be blocked to prevent any form of communication "easy" is in the country with the outside world.
And 'the last move of a junta that last November he did elect a new parliament with elections a farce and a government composed of former military and business allies, without changing anything in the facts of the previous totalitarian model, indeed. Internet was already a phenomenon restricted to a minimum percentule of the population.
In 2010, officially only 110,000 people (500 thousand according to other sources), 0.2 percent of the 55 million Burmese have used large network, compared with 30 percent and close ally of China. All sites critical of the regime are banned and blocked, including many pages of foreign newspapers, although many people use proxy servers to access it anyway, although at very limited.
The complaint announced Skype, Google Talk, Pfingo, VZO, and other similar audio communications services will, however, made an impact in far less "political" than feared by the general strike and as always the poor people. Skype phone calls had become fact, for many Burmese, including those who do not have a computer or an idea of what the Internet, the only cost-effective means of communication with their relatives or friends abroad.
To understand what this may mean new complaint, just think that the emigrants are between two and three million. In most of the country there are only small stores of the village or neighborhood with a public telephone is usually overcrowded and expensive, where a call while abroad can cost between $ 7 and $ 10 per minute, a figure very high for people earning this money in a or two weeks of work.
Mobile phones and SIM cards in Myanmar cost on the other hand up to a million and a half kyatt, $ 1,700 (this figure is often doubled on the black market), although to increase the earnings of the national phone monopoly, the junta has reduced the price $ 560, still out of reach of ordinary people.
E 'was calculated that - in proportion to income - a U.S. citizen would pay the equivalent of $ 74,000 for a mobile phone. Although the owners of Cybercafé have not yet received official instructions on the ban to offer Skype services, is now almost certain that this measure will lose between 30 and 40 percent of their earnings, at least in the major cities of Mandalay and where Rangon are most of the exercises. 
And 'the last move of a junta that last November he did elect a new parliament with elections a farce and a government composed of former military and business allies, without changing anything in the facts of the previous totalitarian model, indeed. Internet was already a phenomenon restricted to a minimum percentule of the population.
In 2010, officially only 110,000 people (500 thousand according to other sources), 0.2 percent of the 55 million Burmese have used large network, compared with 30 percent and close ally of China. All sites critical of the regime are banned and blocked, including many pages of foreign newspapers, although many people use proxy servers to access it anyway, although at very limited.
The complaint announced Skype, Google Talk, Pfingo, VZO, and other similar audio communications services will, however, made an impact in far less "political" than feared by the general strike and as always the poor people. Skype phone calls had become fact, for many Burmese, including those who do not have a computer or an idea of what the Internet, the only cost-effective means of communication with their relatives or friends abroad.
To understand what this may mean new complaint, just think that the emigrants are between two and three million. In most of the country there are only small stores of the village or neighborhood with a public telephone is usually overcrowded and expensive, where a call while abroad can cost between $ 7 and $ 10 per minute, a figure very high for people earning this money in a or two weeks of work.
Mobile phones and SIM cards in Myanmar cost on the other hand up to a million and a half kyatt, $ 1,700 (this figure is often doubled on the black market), although to increase the earnings of the national phone monopoly, the junta has reduced the price $ 560, still out of reach of ordinary people.
E 'was calculated that - in proportion to income - a U.S. citizen would pay the equivalent of $ 74,000 for a mobile phone. Although the owners of Cybercafé have not yet received official instructions on the ban to offer Skype services, is now almost certain that this measure will lose between 30 and 40 percent of their earnings, at least in the major cities of Mandalay and where Rangon are most of the exercises.
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