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BURMA NET TECH - (8#) -

# As the protests reach a critical stage, exiled Burmese journalists are fully aware that the struggle against the junta will be decided not only on the streets but also on television and the internet... Technological progress has turned bulky satellite phones into pocket-sized devices, while new software such as GPass2 can gather an entire suite of programs under a cloak of anonymity... Mizzima set up a new underground unit six months ago using small and mobile equipment. [FT]

# Indian telecom firm TCIL is still operating
in Burma, according to some Australian reports.

# "The website of the
Myanmar Post & Telecommunications, the
government-run telecommunications provider,
appears to be down."

# "Pointing cameras at the charging soldiers is a potentially lethal undertaking... And then there is the job of sending files down laboriously slow internet connections. Free online software [has] helped."

# Burmese Bloggers silenced:
The junta is running two servers ?
Reported from New Delhi.

# Related links:
::Internet in Myanmar::
and ::Myanmar Wide Web::::
::geek discussion::

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