King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based InterDigital Communications Corp has won a $1.3m order for a second digital wireless radio-telephone system from one of the most unlikely sources imaginable, Myanma Posts & Telecommunications in what likes to call itself the Union of Myanmar, but is still Burma to most people: Burma, once a key outpost of the British Empire, has for decades been one of the most closed societies in the world, and since it poses no threat to its neighbours, attracts little interest or attention in the outside world, but upgrading of the phone service could mean that it is thinking of rejoining the community of nations; InterDigital says the systems will provide telephone services to subscribers in Yangon City – is that the place we think of as Rangoon? – and they are expected to be shipped within the next three weeks.
