Myanmar: Promoting affordable connectivity

This compendium, prepared by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), aims to capture emerging trends in digital responses of UN Member States against the COVID-19 pandemic along with other digital government initiatives and provide a preliminary analysis of their main features. These cases are shared for exchange of information so that Member States can learn from each other and possibly create new partnerships.

In an example of regulatory action to promote Internet affordability and connectivity, in 2013, the Government of Myanmar introduced the Telecommunications Law to open the telecommunications market to competition. In the first month after private-sector mobile operators began to enter the telecommunications market in 2014, an estimated 2 million new subscibers joined mobile networks. By 2015, the price of a mobile SIM card had dropped from $150 in 2013 to $1.50.

Country

Myanmar

Institution

The Government of Myanmar