Cambodian PM: Better rural phone networks will improve farmers living standards
Prime Minister Hun Sen has claimed an improved mobile phone network would play an important role in bettering the living standards of rural citizens, local media said on Friday.
A more extensive mobile phone network would help farmers communicate with city businessmen on the price of products, he said on Thursday at the 7th Asean ministerial meeting on the telecommunications industry in Siem Reap province, reported Cambodian-language newspaper the Koh Santepheap.
"The number of telephone users in Cambodia is presently around 12 percent in total. However, this rate is up to 45 percent in the city, compared to one percent in rural areas," he continued.
Hun Sen used Bangladesh as an example, citing that revenues of Bangladeshi farmers have increased by 20 percent following the introduction of the mobile phone network to rural areas.
So Khun, Cambodian Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, said at the meeting that the telephone users at the present time amounts to over 1.5 million people, of which more than 90 percent are cell phone users.
"Our great wish is to turn the Kingdom of Cambodia into an information technology society (with the aim) to develop our society," he said.
Hun Sen added that Cambodia will be able to attain the goal through the commitment and support of its local and foreign partners.
Source: Xinhua
A more extensive mobile phone network would help farmers communicate with city businessmen on the price of products, he said on Thursday at the 7th Asean ministerial meeting on the telecommunications industry in Siem Reap province, reported Cambodian-language newspaper the Koh Santepheap.
"The number of telephone users in Cambodia is presently around 12 percent in total. However, this rate is up to 45 percent in the city, compared to one percent in rural areas," he continued.
Hun Sen used Bangladesh as an example, citing that revenues of Bangladeshi farmers have increased by 20 percent following the introduction of the mobile phone network to rural areas.
So Khun, Cambodian Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, said at the meeting that the telephone users at the present time amounts to over 1.5 million people, of which more than 90 percent are cell phone users.
"Our great wish is to turn the Kingdom of Cambodia into an information technology society (with the aim) to develop our society," he said.
Hun Sen added that Cambodia will be able to attain the goal through the commitment and support of its local and foreign partners.
Source: Xinhua
7 comments:
Wow wow! this is the brilliant idea, but we are starving,please return all corrupt leaders land that have been evicted from the corruption to us , so we can grow some grain to eat that is the right mind and right time to propose.
thanks you hun sen
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This is a business proposition. Only the phone companies is getting rich out of this vision, not the poor farmer. Now, the farmers have to spend money on the phone bill in addition to everything else. Therefore, it will be much harder for them to get by.
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Good stragety for a millionare cell phone company. However, before any peasant can negotiate any kind of price, they must be able to have finished goods to sell first of all. I believe must peasant are currently worried about food on the table never mind trying to sell it. But again, the rich will always get richer. Once the poor out numbers the rich, this may lead to another civil war.
Isn't this Vietnamese stragety that they put their ears into our life incase things going wrong in Cambodian they will know everything. I heard that Vietnam mailitary have contract of phone service in our country. This is bad. You can't talk politically through the phone cause who knows they wired tap our phone lines. God Bless Cambodia.
What a Prime Minster is!!!...Haahhhhhhaaaaa...hun sen ey hun sen, its better to shut up.
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