During the last decade, the telecommunications in Cambodia is growing including new coming mobile phone operators, internet service providers and other online services. Recently, the Cambodia’s government has made its efforts to push for the usage of telecommunications, particularly in public sector.

Recently, the fibre-optic telecommunications networking linking Cambodia with other Greater Mekong Sub-region countries in order to increase speed of communication began operation worth USD17.6 million.

It is a part of the GMS Information Superhighway project, the latest links were built by Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier Huawei Technologies for a total of USD17.6 million. And the links have a network capacity of 2.5 gigabytes per second.

The new 651-kilometre transaction line to Laos will speed up Cambodia’s communication by linking the country to a regional backbone already connecting Thailand, China, Vietnam and Laos.

The fibre-optic networking is stretching from Kampong Cham to the Laos border along National Raod 7, and from Skum city in Kampong Cham province to Siem Reap along National Road 6, work laying the new cable wrapped up in Jully 2009. (more…)