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
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
In June 2026, FIFA granted exclusive Myanmar broadcast rights for the 2026 World Cup to TV360, the streaming and entertainment platform run by Mytel — the telecom operator jointly owned by Myanmar’s military and Vietnam’s Viettel Group. Myanmar Now first reported the deal on June 10, 2026, and The Irrawaddy’s June 11, 2026 report laid … Read more
On 2026-08-13, Myanmar Tech Press asked whether MPT’s flood-emergency network deployment — two satellite terminals and one Cell-on-Wheels (COW) mobile base station in a single township, plus a free seven-day data/voice/SMS pack — was proportioned to a disaster that had already left 441,788 people affected across 17 townships. Four days later, MPT published a second … Read more
MPT’s “Kyite Yar Khaw” any-net voice pack, which we first covered when it launched with a carry-over feature in September 2020, is still on sale in 2026. We checked MPT’s own pricing page (mpt.com.mm/mm/kyite-yar-khaw-pack-mm) to confirm it’s current, and the numbers tell an interesting story: the prices are the same as they were at launch, … Read more