Speaking on the sidelines of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Dr Nasser Marifih said Ooredoo intended to share newly-built infrastructure with fellow licensee Telenor in the South East Asian country.
"We are building infrastructure as we speak. So the plan is in the third quarter that we will launch," Dr Marifih said. "We will be leapfrogging 2G to 3G, as our strategy is to focus on data and broadband. It makes a lot of financial sense from an infrastructure point of view."
On sharing infrastructure with Norway's Telenor, Dr Marifih said there was "a good understanding" between the two companies. "We [will] have some discussions with them to try to share as much as possible, which is good. We're going through that process of trying to share. The idea is to share as much as we can, both the transmission, towers and even power."
Dr Marifih said that in terms of mobile penetration, the current level in Myanmar was "below 10 percent" and that Ooredoo was aiming to capture "30 percent to 50 percent" of the market in the "coming year or two".
Myanmar, formerly known as Burma under its British colonial administration, has one of the world's least developed telecoms infrastructure. Served by a single state operator, mobile SIM cards were reported to sell for upwards of $250 each.
However, following reforms to open up the former military dictatorship three years ago, more than 90 operators were said to have expressed an interest in a tendering process to provide mobile services.
Ooredoo has previously said it will invest $15bn in the country.
source: Arabian Business
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