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Facebook bans insurgent groups in Myanmar
Facebook has banned four insurgent groups fighting Myanmar’s military saying it wanted to prevent offline harm by removing “dangerous organisations”. Read more…
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Vietnam’s Viettel aims to double its 5M subscribers in Myanmar
Vietnam’s largest telecommunication company, Viettel, is seeking to double its five million subscribers in Myanmar by the end of the year. Read more…
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Facebook removes accounts linked to Myanmar’s military
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc has removed hundreds of additional accounts, pages and groups in Myanmar from its social networks after discovering what it called “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” and links to the country’s military. The social Read more…
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Ooredoo Myanmar taps Cisco to develop enterprise services
Ooredoo Myanmar and Cisco have entered an alliance that will enable the operator to offer digital enterprise services in areas such as network-as-a-service (NaaS), collaboration, cybersecurity, and training to local businesses. Under the agreement, Cisco Read more…
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Myanmar cellcos help customers fight mobile phone scams
Myanmar’s four operators – MPT, Ooredoo, Telenor and Mytel – have teamed up to increase awareness of various types of telecommunications scams and educate mobile phone users in the country. While mobile phone usage has Read more…
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Myanmar urged to let data flow freely: workshop
Various speakers at a data privacy workshop in Myanmar urged the government to adopt cyber security policies that offer strong data protection for citizens but enable data to flow freely across borders. The workshop – Read more…
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Ericsson BTS in rural Myanmar uses under 1kW of power
Ericsson says it has successfully deployed a base station in rural Myanmar that uses three frequency bands, supports 2G, 3G and 4G, and runs on less than 1 kilowatt of power. The deployment uses Ericsson’s Read more…
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Facebook admits foot-dragging on Myanmar hate speech
YANGON (Reuters) – Facebook has been “too slow” to address hate speech in Myanmar and is acting to remedy the problem by hiring more Burmese speakers and investing in technology to identify problematic content, the Read more…
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HGC enters Myanmar via majority stake in GTMH
HGC Global Communications announced it has signed a conditional share purchase agreement to take a majority stake in Myanmar’s Golden TMH Telecom (GTMH). GTMH is a communications and network service provider, equipped with one of Read more…
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Ananda launches unlimited 4G TD-LTE services in Yangon
New Myanmar mobile operator Ananda has launched its 4G+ data-only service in Yangon, offering users unlimited data for 35,000 kyats ($25) per month. The launch offer includes a free mi-fi hotspot and a 4G+ SIM. Read more…