Mobile telecommunications

Swedish telecommunications and network infrastructure company Ericsson has selected Malaysia as manufacturing hub for the group’s state-of-the-art fifth-generation (5G) telecom equipment in the Asia-Pacific...

Those were the days: Burmese people happily queue for Telenor SIM cards when business started in 2014

Malaysia’s telecommunications conglomerate Axiata and Norway’s Telenor agreed on the conditions of their tie-up to merge their...

Picture: Aung Htai Hlaing Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor at the presentation of its first-quarter financial results on May...

Malaysian telecom company Axiata Group and Norway’s Telenor are planning to merge their operations in the Southeast...

Dito Telecommunity, a newly established telecom company backed by Chinese investors, launched operations in the Philippines on...

Mobile phone banking has already transformed the provision of financial services in emerging markets such as Kenya, Mexico and even remote and poverty-stricken Papua...

Myanmar's state-owned telecom operator Myanma Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) is planning to reduce its local calling rates per minute, according to sources from the Ministry of...

Shops in Myanmar's second largest city Mandalay have begun selling a limited number of Ooredoo SIM cards, as the Qatari company remains tight-lipped about...

The number of mobile data users in Myanmar has increased steadily since 2011 and is approaching 3 million this year, according to the Myanmar...

Due to increased access to connectivity and the associated predicted urbanisation, African cities wishing to uplift their populations into the 21st century are going...

Ooredoo Myanmar has successfully completed a mobile network trail test at their head office near the Myanmar Information and Communication Technology Park. The mobile service...

Myanmar, formerly a country with exorbitantly high prices for SIM cards and mobile phone calls, will see fees drastically dropping when Telenor and Ooredoo,...

One of the least-connected countries in the world hopes to finally bring technological modernity to its citizens. With cheaper SIM cards and two new...