TELENOR: Mobile Phone Revolution In Myanmar (Burma)

(Michael Peel’s article from the FINANCIAL TIMES Magazine on 28 March 2014.)




It is one of the world’s least
connected nations. But all that is about to change. As 2015 general elections
approach, providing a mobile phone network would boost the government’s
popularity.


Even the white cattle are fading from
view in the gathering dusk of this riverside Myanmar village, the tiny lamps