MAP > Internet Providers in Myanmar

Five years ago, this country had remained among the least developed when it comes to the telecommunications markets in the Asia region. However, this gap has been bridged very quickly with the focus on the mobile and the mobile broadband services and the exploding development in this sector. By the year 2018, Myanmar was only four years into the telecom boom which has changed physical and the technological landscape of this country, since the sector industry got to be opened to the foreign competition in the year 2014. The fixed broadband penetration in this country has remained extremely low, and this has mainly been due to the limited number of the fixed lines and the dominance of mobile platform and the unwillingness by the operators to be able to invest in the fixed broadband infrastructure.

But, by the year 201, the number of the fixed broadband service provider were rising, installing the fiber below or even above for the fixed broadband access. One of the factors that are behind the fall is the entry of telco’s into the home broadband market to be able to compete directly with the existing ISPs. Over the coming five years, to the year 2023, the market has been expected to develop strongly, but the overall market penetration is going to remain low when compared to the other nations. Myanmar’s mobile market has been able to experience rapid growth from the year 2013 to the year 2017, being driven by the entry of three new competitors in this market. The increasing number of operators from just single to four. This is what has increased market competition. By the year 2018, the mobile market has been approaching the saturation level and has enjoyed increased competition over the data prices.

Mobile broadband has been able to experience rapid growth over the last five years, being driven by the rapid development in the mobile sector. As a result, Telco reforms came a bit late Myanmar; it has been able to leapfrog last fixed broadband access to the mobile services access for internet services. Huge growth has been predicted over the coming five years, but at a slow rate as a result of the increasing maturity in the market, the Mobile broadband market is going to be driven by the increasingly fast speeds that are offered by mobile operators as they get to roll out the 4G and later on the 5G networks.