ISPs apologize for internet cuts
The anti-Tatmadaw protest movement has condemned the industry for not pushing back against the orders. But ordinary customers of Myanmar’s nearly 70 ISPs, interviewed by Frontier, have also complained about paying full price for part-time inter
Irrawaddy Green Tower to sell for USD 700 million
Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners may soon purchase Irrawaddy Green Towers Ltd., Myanmar’s biggest cellular infrastructure company, for USD 700 million, a confidential source told Bloomberg. If successful, the deal would be the largest iSIM registration deadline gets closer
The Posts and Telecommunications Department (PTD) under the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MOTC) has issued a statement reminding users to (re)register their SIM cards by 30 June or face the threat of having it deactivated on that date. Th
Students arrested after protesting internet blackout
Police arrested students last Sunday during a protest against the ongoing internet blackout in conflict-riddled parts of Rakhine and Chin State. The students are facing charges of unlawful association after police broke up the Yangon protest against
Facebook suspends Myanmar accounts spreading fake news
Facebook announced that it has removed a network of bogus accounts and pages. It banned 13 accounts and 10 pages that had ties to Mytel, Myanmar’s fourth telecom provider that launched in 2018, and its foreign stakeholder, Vietnamese telecom Vi
