Documenting the Myanmar military junta's systematic use of internet censorship, website blocking, and connectivity shutdowns as instruments of political repression.
Five years after the coup, Myanmar's junta has codified digital repression. New cybersecurity laws mandate ISP backdoors, 2,000+ URLs are blocked, and targeted shutdowns are used as collective punishment.
Leaked files expose how China’s Great Firewall tech powers censorship in Myanmar, spanning 26 data centers and 13 ISPs.
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.
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
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.
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
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!
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
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!
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
This fast-growing blacklist along with a complete lack of transparency will have a serious impact on the country's digital economy development.
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.
SD-WAN is one of the fastest growing technology in the enterprise infrastructure space. It is also a great fit for the Myanmar market.
ဒီတစ္ခါေတာ့ မႏၱေလးျမိဳ႕မွာ ဘယ္ ISP (Internet Service Providers) ဝန္ေဆာင္မႈေတြ ရႏိုုင္မလဲဆိုုတာ လက္လွမ္းမီသေလာက္ ေဖာ္ျပေပးပါရေစ။
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.
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.
ပထမဆံုုးတစ္ခုုကေတာ့ job search engines Website ဆိုုရင္ MyWorld ပါပဲ၊ Myanmar’s Best Recruitment Agency လိုု႔ ေၾကာ္ျငာထားပါတယ္။
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
လာမယ့္ ဖိလစ္ပိုင္ SEA Game မွာလည္း Esports ကို Medal Event အေနနဲ႔ ၿပိဳင္ပြဲက်င္းပေပးမွာ ျဖစ္ၿပီး PC Platform အတြက္ Dota 2 နဲ႔ Starcraft 2 ၊ Console အတြက္
လာမယ့္ ဖိလစ္ပိုင္ SEA Game မွာလည္း Esports ကို Medal Event အေနနဲ႔ ၿပိဳင္ပြဲက်င္းပေပးမွာ ျဖစ္ၿပီး PC Platform အတြက္ Dota 2 နဲ႔ Starcraft 2 ၊ Console အတြက္
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.
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.
How to select the best broadband provider for your business? Who are the top business Internet service providers in Myanmar?
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.
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.
Internet growth in Myanmar is driven by the massive adoption of new digital services that aim to simply make our life better. Here is our top 7!
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.
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.
In this article, we will list down the main fiber service providers and show you that Myanmar consumers are spoilt with choice.
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.
June 9th, Mytel has officially launched services nationwide and became the 4th mobile operator in Myanmar. Mytel 4G is already available in 300 townships.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
Internet in Myanmar is please to share its updated broadband price comparison for Myanmar. This is the last update from December 2017.
Thanks to OpenSignal, you can better signal, find free Wifi and see which operator is best in your location all over Myanmar
According to spamhaus, the most infected countries by spam botnets are China, India, Russia and Vietnam. Myanmar is 90th which does not seem worrying.
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.
In September 2017, Myanmar Post and Telecommunications Department (PTD) opened a consultation for the future allocation of E-GSM spectrum
Ooredoo customers can activate Phalan Phalan by dialing *555# and there is no activation or subscription fee. New customers will enjoy automatically.
2 weeks ago, Kepios released the latest episode of its global digital report. 9 months after the last report, Internet penetration in Myanmar reaches 28%
A few days ago, Myanmar public operator MPT was awarded Myanmar's Speedtest Winner for mobile network speed for Q1-Q2 2017.
It all started with a bombshell. Early August, MPT –the largest broadband ISP- launched a new FTTH offer at extremely attractive price.
PeerApp provides Optimized Video Content Delivery services to network providers. According to Fortune, QoE has improved 15% since deployment of PACache.
Shortly after the launch of Telenor data Suboo Packs, Ooredoo has released a serie of new Internet packages and promotions.
Telenor releases a new range of data packages called Data SuBoo. These packages replaces Data Parcel no longer available since 17th July 2017.
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
Ooredoo has just launched a serie of promotions and bundles that build up its partnership with the video-on-demand service iflix.
Last week, Telenor confirmed in a press release that it has acquired additional spectrum for its 4G LTE network across Myanmar.
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!
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!
Ooredoo released a new promotion that promises to be successful among the digital consumers. With every top-up, free Facebook, Viber and Beetalk.
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
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.
Malaysian streaming company iflix has announced that its service is now available in Myanmar.
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
Telenor has extended its 4G LTE network to six new cities in Myanmar: Taungdwingyi, Aunglan and Pakokku in Magway region; Monywa in Sagaing Region
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.
Our Yangon Internet tour brings us today to a strategic location for mobile operators: Yangon International Airport Terminal 1.
Today, our Yangon Internet journey brings us for a quick shopping session in one of the popular mall in town: Ocean Supermarket in Tamwe.
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.
According to our sources, Telenor Myanmar is about to release all you can eat hourly and daily movie packages.
That is the first episode of our Yangon Internet tour where we benchmark Myanmar mobile Internet performance. Today: People's Park.
Lars Erik Tellmann, Telenor Myanmar CEO has just released a very interesting interview to Myanmar Times.
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.
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.
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.
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
Spotify, the Swedish music streaming service is unfortunately not available in Myanmar. We will show you a few workarounds to bypass this restriction!
Our team of experts tested Ooredoo Myanmar 4G network. Read the exclusive review on our website!
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
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
In this post, we are going to share what volume based Internet plans are available in the market and designate the most attractive package.
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.
In this post, we will explain step by step how to bypass this country limitation. It is actually very simple and straight forward.
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.
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.
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.
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
In the last post, we compared the Internet service provider social presence. It is time for the mobile operators to join the battlefield.
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
For our first benchmark, we have compared the residential Internet plans of 10 Internet service providers 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.
As of September 2016, this is the list of active Internet service providers in Myanmar. Ooredoo Myanmar Telenor Myanmar Myanmar Post And Telecommunications
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.
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.