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Mail4U offers everyone an internet
address
A NEW, cheap email service was
launched by internet service provider Bagan Cybertech early
this month.
The email service, named Mai14U, charges a small annual fee
of K8000 for an email account, targeting those who do not
have a private email account.
"We sell these Mai14U accounts through resellers who now
total 20," said U Maung Maung Kyaw Thar, marketing manager
of Bagan Cybertech.
"Our ambition is to have our Mai14U service resellers in
every corner of Yangon so that every resident of the city
can use email, said U Maung Maung Kyaw Thar.
Bagan Cybertech, one of two internet service providers in
Myanmar along with
Myanma Post and Telecommunication, will not compete with
their licebsed resellers in selling Mail4U.
Those who buy a Mail4U account will receive a user name
under the domain name @mail4U.com.mm and a pass word.
If email users are under 12 or do not have a national
registration card, they must attach their parents' or
guardians' consent along with the application form to buy
and email account. To be a mail4U reseller, a company must
have a dial up or broadband access and lodge a deposit fee
of K 100,000 with Bagan Cybertech.
"We judge the applicants for the Mail4U resellers by their
location and reputation in the computer
industry.""Therefore, the first 20 Mail4U resellers are
software companies, hardware sellers, and computer training
centres,"said U Maung Maung Kyaw Thar.
Previously, an individual user needed a personal computer, a
phone line, a modem and the necessary software to use email.
"Under the old system, users had to pay at least K 8,000 per
month for up to 10 hours spent on-line," said U Maung
MuangKyaw Thar.
"I did not have a private email account so I could not make
continuous contact with my overseas shipping agency and my
friends who are now on the sea," said Ko Nay Win Thein, a
mariner who has bought a Mail4U account. "Now I have an
email account and I can make contact with them
continuously," he said.
A foreigner who has bought an email account told Myanmar
Times: "My mother has an email account and I want to stay in
contact with her. That's why I signed up."
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