Myanmar awards telco licences to Telenor and Ooredoo

Subscribe to our tender alert mailing list After months of hard work, speculation and almost disappointment – the winners of the 2 telco licences have been announced by Myanmar Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. What is remarkable is that both Norway’s Telenor and Qatar Telecom (now known as Ooredoo) are 100% foreign owned companies […]

Myanmar telecoms licence winners to be announced Thursday as planned

Subscribe to our tender alert mailing list Thu Jun 27, 2013 10:16am IST YANGON (Reuters) – The winners of two new telecoms licences in Myanmar will be announced as planned on Thursday despite a vote in parliament to delay the process, the head of the body overseeing the bidding said. “We are ready to announce […]

China’s Huawei market leader in mobile handset in Myanmar

Chinese telecom companies are enthusiastic about Myanmar’s efforts to boost its underdeveloped telecom market, said a high-level manager at the Myanmar branch of a top Chinese telecom company. “The inflow of top telecom operators from all over the world creates a brilliant opportunity to upgrade the country’s telecom sector,” said Ren Geng, managing director of […]