Editing Yangon (section)

===Communication===
Common facilities taken for granted elsewhere are luxury prized items in Yangon and Burma. The price of a [[GSM]] mobile phone was about K1.1&nbsp;million in August 2008.<ref name="sms"/> In 2007, the country of 55 million had only 775,000 phone lines (including 275,000 mobile phones),<ref name="ict">{{Cite news |title=ICT Statistics Collection and Analysis |url=http://www.unescap.org/icstd/events/Info-Society-Stats-Workshop-2007/Myanmar.pdf |publisher=The Government of the Union of Myanmar Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development |author=Central Statistical Organization |date=6 November 2007}}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/03/content_7913706.htm |title=Mobile phones in Myanmar increase to over 200,000 in 2007 |date=3 April 2008 |access-date=1 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703022656/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/03/content_7913706.htm |archive-date=3 July 2009 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> and 400,000 computers.<ref name="ict"/> Even in Yangon, which has the best infrastructure, the estimated telephone penetration rate was only 6% at the end of 2004, and the official waiting time for a telephone line was 3.6 years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Myanmar (Burma) – Telecoms, Mobile & Internet |url=http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9fc71c/myanmar_burma |publisher=Research and Markets |date=19 July 2010 |location=Dublin |access-date=24 July 2010 |archive-date=8 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308123146/http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9fc71c/myanmar_burma |url-status=live}}</ref> Most people cannot afford a computer and have to use the city's numerous Internet cafes to access a heavily restricted internet, and a heavily censored local intranet.<ref name="oni"/> According to official statistics, in July 2010, the country had over 400,000 internet users, with the vast majority hailing from just two cities, Yangon and Mandalay. Although internet access was available in 42 cities across the country, the number of users outside the two main cities was just over 10,000.<ref name=bw-Internet>{{Cite journal |title=State of Internet Usage in Myanmar |journal=Bi-Weekly Eleven |language=my |date=30 July 2010 |volume=3 |issue=18 |author1=Wai-Yan Phyo Oo |author2=Saw Pyayzon |name-list-style=amp}}</ref>