This is Myanmar Tech Press’s weekly column, where we connect the past several days of coverage, check back on things we flagged earlier, and add the analysis that a single news article doesn’t have room for. This time, that means a phone that finally has a price tag, a banking order that may or may … Read more
OPPO Myanmar has confirmed official pricing for the Reno16 Series 5G, ending the guessing game that started with the brand’s teaser campaign earlier this month. According to a press release issued on September 8, 2026 (Yangon), distributed through the PR agency Vero Myanmar, the Reno16 5G will retail at 3,699,900 MMK and the Reno16 F … Read more
Myanmar’s central bank has instructed local banks and mobile payment operators to introduce technical restrictions that would prevent apps such as K-Pay, Wave Money, AYA Pay and CB Pay from being accessed outside the country, according to a report published by MoeMaKa on August 28, 2026. The restrictions are reported to have been set to … Read more
In early March 2026, Myanmar’s government rolled out a mandatory phone registration system called CEIR (Central Equipment Identity Register), linking every handset’s IMEI number to its SIM card and, by extension, to the owner’s national ID. The government’s own framing for the system, laid out in the Office of the President’s announcement, was narrow: it … Read more
This is our weekly column: we pull together the stories we covered over the past week, put one or two of them next to something from our archive, and flag a specific, checkable claim to come back to later. Three stories this time, and they turn out to share a theme neither of them states … Read more