Internet in Myanmar
Reports & Analysis

Censorship & Shutdowns

Documenting the Myanmar military junta's systematic use of internet censorship, website blocking, and connectivity shutdowns as instruments of political repression.

January 19, 2025· 8 min read

The Economic Cost of Internet Censorship in Myanmar: A Call for Change

Internet censorship in Myanmar cost $1.58B in 2024, 2.44% of GDP. Explore its economic impact and why open internet access is crucial for growth and investment.

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November 28, 2024· 8 min read

The Growth of E-commerce in Myanmar: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Trends

E-commerce in Myanmar has witnessed remarkable growth in recent years, becoming one of the most dynamic sectors of the country’s digital economy. As internet penetration rises and mobile access expands, online shopping is becoming a part of everyday life for an increasing number

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April 21, 2023· 13 min read

Virtual Private Servers in Myanmar

Learn how to choose the right Virtual Private Server (VPS) in Myanmar. Consider factors like support, resources, OS, and security. Get insights on the top VPS providers in Myanmar.

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November 15, 2020· 16 min read

Why Myanmar companies should embrace a multi-cloud strategy

Since the telecom liberalization in Myanmar, the country has gone through a digital revolution. Myanmar people are adopting new technologies at a rapid pace. More than 90% of the population owns a smartphone, 40% of the population uses the Internet. It all started with Facebook

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October 29, 2020· 4 min read

State of the Mobile Internet in Myanmar - Oct 20

According to the last GSMA report, Myanmar is among the top 4 countries with the fastest growth in Internet penetration over the past 5 years. The country's internet penetration jumped from 10% to 40% in 5 years!

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October 13, 2020· 5 min read

Examining the Impact of Myanmar’s Proposed Smart City on Privacy

Smart cities leverage smart technology and data analysis to optimize city functions, drive economic growth, and improve the quality of life of the residents. In January 2020, Myanmar’s construction ministry signed a deal to build a smart city in the country’s largest city, Yangon

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September 25, 2020· 8 min read

Home Broadband Internet in Myanmar - Sept 2020

Our last home broadband pricing report was published 15 months ago. Since then, we discovered new Internet service providers, others shut down, the competition is still intense!

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July 31, 2020· 15 min read

Four years down the 4G auction, mixed results for ISPs in Myanmar

Almost four years ago, Myanmar Post and Telecommunication Department (PTD) published the result of an historical bid for the acquisition of 4G spectrum. This bid was reserved for Internet service providers and mobile operators were requested not to participate

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May 16, 2020· 13 min read

A Major Brake on Myanmar Digital Economy Plan

This fast-growing blacklist along with a complete lack of transparency will have a serious impact on the country's digital economy development.

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May 5, 2020· 5 min read

Joox, Myanmar #1 music streaming service

Joox, a music streaming service owned by Chinese multinational conglomerate Tencent, was launched in 2015 and accumulated over 100 million downloads on the Play Store. The service has a music library of 30 million tracks.

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April 25, 2020· 16 min read

SD-WAN in Myanmar, a golden opportunity?

SD-WAN is one of the fastest growing technology in the enterprise infrastructure space. It is also a great fit for the Myanmar market.

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July 30, 2019· 9 min read

မန္တလေးမြို့မှာ အင်တာနက်သုံးမယ်ဆိုရင် ဘယ် ISP ဝန်ဆောင်မှုကို သုံးကြမလဲ

ဒီတစ္ခါေတာ့ မႏၱေလးျမိဳ႕မွာ ဘယ္ ISP (Internet Service Providers) ဝန္ေဆာင္မႈေတြ ရႏိုုင္မလဲဆိုုတာ လက္လွမ္းမီသေလာက္ ေဖာ္ျပေပးပါရေစ။

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July 21, 2019· 7 min read

Home Broadband Plans in Myanmar - July 19

Average price per mbps continue to crash at a rapid pace. We can’t help noticing that a virtual floor price was hit already last year, forcing ISPs to shift their pricing strategy: giving more bandwidth for the same price.

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July 6, 2019· 7 min read

How to watch Pyone Play outside of Myanmar?

Do you know Pyone Play? Everybody knows Pyone Play. This is one of the most popular streaming platform in Myanmar. The service launched in 2016 has seen a growing popularity in Myanmar as Internet become more and more mainstream.

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June 23, 2019· 15 min read

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ အွန်လိုင်းကနေ ဘယ်လို အလုပ်အကိုင် လွယ်လွယ်ရှာဖွေကြမလဲ

ပထမဆံုုးတစ္ခုုကေတာ့ job search engines Website ဆိုုရင္ MyWorld ပါပဲ၊ Myanmar’s Best Recruitment Agency လိုု႔ ေၾကာ္ျငာထားပါတယ္။

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May 15, 2019· 10 min read

How to save money on your Internet bill?

Since the liberalization of the telecom sector in Myanmar, Internet adoption in Myanmar has been massive with a double-digit penetration growth year-on-year. According to the last report from Wearesocial, 39% of Myanmar population is now using Internet on a regular basis.

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April 29, 2019· 3 min read

MPT launches new broadband promotion

During the summer 2017, MPT surprised everyone by releasing a killer offer into the broadband market. MPT was at that time competing with Telenor for the cheapest FTTH plan in the market. The megabit was sold as low as 10,900Ks which made precedence and definitely trigger a new w

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March 20, 2019· 8 min read

Buy a Mobile WiFi Hotspot in Myanmar

Over the past few years, 4G networks have become widely available in Myanmar. Myanmar owns one of the fastest mobile data networks in the world.

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March 9, 2019· 13 min read

7 Steps to Protect your Online Privacy on Android / MIUI

According to the last report from We Are Social, Internet penetration in Myanmar rose to 39% in February 2019. The report also says that 99% of these Internet users are mobile.

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March 4, 2019· 13 min read

Why Internet Exchange Points Are Important

Myanmar Internet Exchange (MM-IX) was born in September 2017 and is Myanmar’s first Internet Exchange Point. MMIX is dubbed by APNIC, the Regional Internet address Registry (RIR) for the Asia-Pacific region. MMIX is an association that provides IP peering facilities to its member

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February 21, 2019· 2 min read

Telenor announces unlimited data roaming to Thailand

Back in April 2018, Telenor Myanmar changed the life of frequent flyers by offering a super attractive rate for data roaming on 8 destinations in Asia: Thailand, Malaysia, China, Singapore, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia and Taiwan The rate dropped down from 500Ks per MB to 8Ks

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February 8, 2019· 14 min read

Shared, VPS & Dedicated Web Hosting in Myanmar

Shared, VPS or Dedicated? It all depends on your needs. There is no wrong solution there. If your budget is limited and you are looking to start a niche website which will not receive a lot of traffic, go for shared hosting. It is definitely a good introduction to hosting and wil

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February 3, 2019· 15 min read

တစ္စထက္ တစ္စ ပိုမိုလမ္းပြင့္လာတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့ Esports နဲ႔ Mobile Game အလားအလာ

လာမယ့္ ဖိလစ္ပိုင္ SEA Game မွာလည္း Esports ကို Medal Event အေနနဲ႔ ၿပိဳင္ပြဲက်င္းပေပးမွာ ျဖစ္ၿပီး PC Platform အတြက္ Dota 2 နဲ႔ Starcraft 2 ၊ Console အတြက္

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February 3, 2019· 15 min read

တစ်စထက် တစ်စ ပိုမိုလမ်းပွင့်လာတဲ့ မြန်မာ့ Esports နဲ့ Mobile Game အလားအလာ

လာမယ့္ ဖိလစ္ပိုင္ SEA Game မွာလည္း Esports ကို Medal Event အေနနဲ႔ ၿပိဳင္ပြဲက်င္းပေပးမွာ ျဖစ္ၿပီး PC Platform အတြက္ Dota 2 နဲ႔ Starcraft 2 ၊ Console အတြက္

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February 2, 2019· 8 min read

Telenor revamps Data Suboo

On January 23rd, Telenor announced a complete revamp of its famous data packages called Data Suboo. The new monthly packs range from 700MB to 15.5GB which should fit every customer need and budget.

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January 24, 2019· 11 min read

Myanmar Net: leading innovation in Myanmar

Myanmar Net is one of the leading ISP's in Myanmar. Technology-wise, Myanmar Net uses a mix of Fiber and Wifi to provide connectivity to its customers.

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November 1, 2018· 8 min read

Ooredoo Myanmar, mobile operator of the year

In one year, Ooredoo went from the last position to a solid leader in mobile data performance providing outstanding 4G speed in Yangon and Mandalay.

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October 29, 2018· 6 min read

MyTel introduces eSIM technology in Myanmar

Mytel recently announces that it will be the first operator to launch eSIM in Myanmar.The mobile operator presented the technology in a Youtube video.

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September 16, 2018· 5 min read

Mobile data price drops by 30% in Myanmar

September 2018, there is a new price point for mobile data in Myanmar and the good news is that it is 30% cheaper than it used to be.

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August 25, 2018· 6 min read

Internet News Digest - Summer 2018

Besides monsoon promotions, the Internet market in Myanmar is quiet these days. This is a brief review of news that keep us entertained during the summer.

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August 4, 2018· 6 min read

Fiber broadband providers in Myanmar

In this article, we will list down the main fiber service providers and show you that Myanmar consumers are spoilt with choice.

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July 21, 2018· 6 min read

Mytel APN Settings for 4G Internet

Our step by step guide to use 4G Internet with Mytel Myanmar. Configure your APN settings on your Android or Xiaomi phone thanks to our guide.

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June 29, 2018· 5 min read

Mytel hits one million subs in Myanmar

June 9th, Mytel has officially launched services nationwide and became the 4th mobile operator in Myanmar. Mytel 4G is already available in 300 townships.

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May 25, 2018· 4 min read

Residential Internet Plans in Myanmar - May 2018

This quarter has seen Myanmarnet facing a vague of complains while 5BB FTTH service is more and more popular. Ananda has finally launched 4G service in Yangon with some truly exciting price plans.

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April 15, 2018· 6 min read

Telenor Myanmar offers music streaming with Joox

To celebrate Myanmar New Year, Telenor update its entertainment packs with the new music streaming service Joox. Telenor video packs were launched a bit more than one year ago. As we mentioned in our article at that time, the offer was originally limited to Youtube and Pyone Play

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April 7, 2018· 3 min read

Telenor Myanmar slashes data roaming costs

Myanmar business travelers will be pleased: Telenor Myanmar just reduced drastically the data roaming rate across 8 countries in Asia including Thailand, Malaysia, China, Singapore, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia and Taiwan.

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April 4, 2018· 9 min read

Why use a VPN in Myanmar

Internet Freedom in Myanmar is declining, censorship is on the rise. Government recently announced a massive investment in a solution to monitor activity on Internet and specifically Facebook.

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March 22, 2018· 2 min read

Mobile Data: calm before the storm

As we wrote a few weeks ago, a 4th mobile operator is about to launch in Myanmar: Mytel. Calm before the storm, Telenor and MPT ended their respective data promotions and shut themselves away as Thingyan this year promise to be wet.

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March 6, 2018· 10 min read

Datacenters and Cloud Providers in Myanmar

As of today, hosting content in country is not the common rule in Myanmar. Most of the companies rely on Singapore for hosting both their data and computing capabilities. But this situation is slowly evolving and a domestic range of collocation and cloud offers is now available t

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February 17, 2018· 8 min read

MyTel & Ananda hit the Myanmar market

The telecom market in Myanmar is about to enter a new era. Headlines of the past few days, two new telcos announced their incoming 4G launch. First of them, Mytel officially launched its 4G network last Sunday during a ceremony in Nay Pyi Daw where the operator initiated the firs

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January 24, 2018· 6 min read

Myanmar Mobile Operators invest in 4G spectrum

It was in May 2017 that the mobile operators in Myanmar received a first allocation in the 1800Mhz band by the Posts and Telecommunications Department. 2x40Mhz were granted, 2x35Mhz left and offered on a first come first served basis. This initial spectrum grant provided a huge b

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December 28, 2017· 4 min read

In Myanmar, mobile data prices are on the rise

In December 2017, mobile operators in Myanmar have all increased their data package prices. The new mobile data price is situated around 1,7MMK per MB.

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November 7, 2017· 5 min read

Ooredoo to launch 4G Pro in Myanmar

Ooredoo has announced yesterday the launch of its new 4G network baptised 4G Pro that will be available across 200 towns in Myanmar by the end of the year.

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September 27, 2017· 5 min read

Panic on Myanmar broadband market

It all started with a bombshell. Early August, MPT –the largest broadband ISP- launched a new FTTH offer at extremely attractive price.

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September 19, 2017· 4 min read

Guest Post: PeerApp & Fortune Success Story

PeerApp provides Optimized Video Content Delivery services to network providers. According to Fortune, QoE has improved 15% since deployment of PACache.

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August 7, 2017· 2 min read

Ooredoo Myanmar launches Facebook packs

Shortly after the launch of Telenor data Suboo Packs, Ooredoo has released a serie of new Internet packages and promotions.

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July 7, 2017· 7 min read

Ooredoo with M-Pitesan is going after Wave Money

Wave Money was launched last year, baby born from a partnership between Telenor and Yoma Bank. Ooredoo finally launches its mobile money solution: M-Pitesan

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July 1, 2017· 3 min read

Ooredoo launches exclusive iflix bundles

Ooredoo has just launched a serie of promotions and bundles that build up its partnership with the video-on-demand service iflix.

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May 4, 2017· 4 min read

Yangon WiFi Map in your pocket

Over the past few years, Wi-Fi networks have been flourishing in Yangon. It is hard to find a spot in the city without a few Wi-Fi SSID’s available. Unfortunately, most of them are secured. Which does not mean you cannot access them with the right app!

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May 3, 2017· 11 min read

Pyone Play: watch your favorite shows offline!

Would you like to download your favorite Myanmar shows directly from your phone or laptop? Our easy tutorial will teach you how to do it with Pyone Play!

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April 28, 2017· 4 min read

Topup with Ooredoo to get Facebook for free

Ooredoo released a new promotion that promises to be successful among the digital consumers. With every top-up, free Facebook, Viber and Beetalk.

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March 27, 2017· 2 min read

Ooredoo / Telenor / MPT USSD Memo

Find all the most useful USSD codes for MPT Ooredoo Myanmar and Telenor Myanmar in a all-in-one PDF memo you can download and print easily

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March 18, 2017· 6 min read

Telenor launches Internet video packs

A few days ago, Telenor Myanmar launched officially a new range of plans: Video plans. So far, only Youtube and Pyone Play are included on the plans.

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March 15, 2017· 2 min read

iflix now available in Myanmar

Malaysian streaming company iflix has announced that its service is now available in Myanmar.

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February 25, 2017· 5 min read

Mobile Internet: Let the price war begin!

With the new 4G spectrum allocation in March that will more likely drive a massive 4G launch or re-launch, this is just the beginning of a new battle between the three mobile operators. Ooredoo definitely takes the lead with a very aggressive pricing but Telenor has a big card to

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February 19, 2017· 1 min read

Telenor Myanmar to extend 4G to six new cities

Telenor has extended its 4G LTE network to six new cities in Myanmar: Taungdwingyi, Aunglan and Pakokku in Magway region; Monywa in Sagaing Region

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January 16, 2017· 1 min read

Myanmar 4th telco to launch service in 2018

According to Myanmar Times, the Ministry of Transport and Communication finally awarded the 4th mobile operator license last week. The new group called MNTC is composed by the Vietnam’s largest mobile network operator Viettel and a local consortium of elevel Myanmar companies.

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December 3, 2016· 10 min read

Yangon Internet Tour Chapter 2: Ocean Tamwe

Today, our Yangon Internet journey brings us for a quick shopping session in one of the popular mall in town: Ocean Supermarket in Tamwe.

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December 2, 2016· 4 min read

Myanmar next 4G auction scheduled for March 2017

According to Myanmar Times, the next 4G spectrum auction in Myanmar is scheduled for March 2017. Ooredoo, MPT and Telenor are more likely to participate.

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November 28, 2016· 10 min read

Yangon Internet Tour Chapter 1: People's Park

That is the first episode of our Yangon Internet tour where we benchmark Myanmar mobile Internet performance. Today: People's Park.

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November 17, 2016· 13 min read

Why is Internet so expensive in Myanmar?

We decided to take a look at different markets in Asia and to compare both mobile and fixed broadband prices with our own market, Myanmar.

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November 15, 2016· 7 min read

Ooredoo Myanmar launches internet night packs

Ooredoo Myanmar just released a new type of data plans: internet night packs. The night pack concept was not invented by Ooredoo and is quite popular all over the world. And even in Myanmar where MPT launched its own night plans back in February.

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November 11, 2016· 3 min read

Mobile Internet Plans in Myanmar - November 2016

A quick reminder that all the mobile operators in Myanmar operate 3G and 4G. Ooredoo has the widest 4G network as of today and covers Yangon, Nay Pi Taw, Mandalay and Bagan. As for Telenor, don’t expect to use its 4G service except if you live or visit Nay Pi Taw.

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November 8, 2016· 8 min read

Pyone Play, watch your favorite Myanmar shows on your mobile

If you are Myanmar national or happen to live in Myanmar, you have probably heard of MRTV4. Maha Bawdi or Channel 7. These are Forever Group free-to-air channels, a media company specialized in media production, broadcasting and advertising. MRTV4 is probably one of the biggest a

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November 1, 2016· 7 min read

How to use Spotify in Myanmar?

Spotify, the Swedish music streaming service is unfortunately not available in Myanmar. We will show you a few workarounds to bypass this restriction!

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October 27, 2016· 8 min read

Myanmar Net - Broadband for the Mass

Today we are going to review the biggest ISP for the consumer market in Myanmar : Myanmar Net. Myanmar Net was launched in 2015 by Frontiir as their consumer leg. Frontiir Communications is a large ICT provider in Myanmar serving exclusively the corporate segment. Capitalizing on

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October 23, 2016· 11 min read

MPT 4G Review - Unsurprisingly Disappointing

October 14th, MPT announced in front of the press the launch of its 4G network. MPT is the last of the mobile operators to launch 4G after Telenor in July and Ooredoo in May earlier this year. MPT 4G will only be available in specific indoor locations such as MPT Sule Branch, Jun

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October 20, 2016· 5 min read

Internet Volume Plans in Myanmar - October 2016

In this post, we are going to share what volume based Internet plans are available in the market and designate the most attractive package.

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October 20, 2016· 5 min read

MPT APN Settings for 4G Internet

Our step by step guide to use 4G Internet with MPT Myanmar. Configure your APN settings on your Android or Xiaomi phone thanks to our guide.

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October 18, 2016· 13 min read

2017: The year of 4G

LTE is widely deployed worldwide. It is a robust and mature technology. Is 2017 going to be the year of 4G in Myanmar? Lets find out.

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October 16, 2016· 1 min read

MPT launches 4G in Myanmar

On October 14th, MPT announced that it has soft launched its 4G network in a certain number of locations in Yangon and Nay Pyi Taw. Awaiting for the future auction on 1800Mhz, MPT is trialing 4G on 2100Mhz, co-sharing with its 3G networks also operating on the same band.

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October 15, 2016· 3 min read

True Net Wireless Internet Service Provider in Myanmar

True Net is a Wireless ISP or WISP in Yangon. As discussed in a previous post, it does not seem to be full-fledged and does not own its public IP or AS Number. True Net is more likely retailing a bulk of bandwidth from one of the major ISPs in Myanmar.

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October 13, 2016· 3 min read

Social Media Marketing Benchmark: Internet Service Providers in Myanmar

In this post, we will have a close look at the social network activity of the different Internet service providers in Myanmar, Facebook in particular. Before digging in the benchmark, it is quite important to understand Facebook main KPIs

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October 12, 2016· 3 min read

Mobile Internet Plans in Myanmar - October 2016

All the operators operate a 3G network. Telenor and Ooredoo launched 4G in 2016 but the technology is only partially available. Telenor 4G service is available in Naypyidaw whereas Ooredoo 4G is available in Yangon, Mandalay, Naypyidaw and Bagan. MPT has just launched 4G LTE in s

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September 23, 2016· 3 min read

IPv6 Deployment Status in Myanmar

One of the key indicator that Myanmar is still in an early development stage in the telecom sector is the dramatic status of IPv6 in Myanmar.

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September 20, 2016· 2 min read

Internet Service Providers overview in Myanmar

As of September 2016, this is the list of active Internet service providers in Myanmar. Ooredoo Myanmar Telenor Myanmar Myanmar Post And Telecommunications

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September 20, 2016· 6 min read

Ooredoo Myanmar 3G 4G APN Settings

Our step by step guide to use 4G Internet with Ooredoo Myanmar. Configure your APN settings on your Android or Xiaomi phone thanks to our guide.

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September 20, 2016· 5 min read

Telenor Myanmar 3G 4G APN settings

Our step by step guide to use 4G Internet with Telenor Myanmar. Configure your APN settings on your Android or Xiaomi phone thanks to our guide.

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