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…
Facebook has banned four insurgent groups fighting Myanmar’s military saying it wanted to prevent offline harm by removing “dangerous organisations”. Read more…
Vietnam’s largest telecommunication company, Viettel, is seeking to double its five million subscribers in Myanmar by the end of the year. Read more…
(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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s military-run telecommunication company Viettel Group and its partners will launch a 4G mobile network in Myanmar next month to cash in on the Southeast Asian country’s fast-growing economy, the Vietnamese government Read more…
Telenor Myanmar says that both data roaming usage and roaming subscriptions have spiked since launching its ‘Asia-8’ roam-like-home service last month. Telenor Myanmar introduced the Asia-8 roaming plan for both prepaid and post-paid customers in Read more…
Myanmar’s three main operators – incumbent MPT, Ooredoo and Telenor – said in a joint announcement that they have signed up a total of 50 million mobile subscribers between them since launching services over the Read more…
Telenor Myanmar has released its first report on the state of play in Myanmar’s digital ambitions, the challenges and opportunities ahead, and a roadmap that envisions the country becoming one of the top ‘digital-native’ economies Read more…
Myanmar telco Global Technology Group has announced that it plans to launch LTE services in 30 cities across the country in April next year. According to the Myanmar Times, Global Technology Group – which first Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Ride-hailing firm Grab, the main Southeast Asian rival of Uber Technologies Inc, said it would commit $100 million over the next three years to deepen its presence in Myanmar, grow to more Read more…
State telco Myanmar Posts and Telecommunication (MPT) has joined the race to provide free Wi-Fi in public areas, saying it will launch public hotspots starting sometime next year. MPT-KSGM deputy chief commercial officer U Thein Read more…
Ride-hailing platform Grab has announced its next phase of expansion in Myanmar with new investments in technology, driver care and local partnerships to improve the user experience and expand Grab’s ride-hailing service in Yangon. Grab Read more…
YANGON (Reuters) – Uber Technologies is only hiring government-accredited taxi drivers in Myanmar, a regional executive said, a move that allows it to avoid the legal hurdles that have dogged it across Asia in one Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore-headquartered Grab launched a trial of its ride-hailing services in Myanmar on Tuesday, aiming to expand to a seventh Southeast Asian country, while rival Uber Technologies Inc said it was also looking Read more…
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