MyTel reaches 70% population coverage

Myanmar’s MyTel has announced it has achieved 70% population coverage with its 4G network mere months after launch.

MyTel, the joint venture between Vietnam’s Viettel and a consortium of local technology companies, launched services in March in Nay Pyi Taw, eastern Bago and Kayin State.

Now the operator’s network covers nearly all townships in the Yangon Region, citing comments from the company’s chief external relations officer Y Zaw Min Oo.

Meanwhile the operator has signed on around 100,000 users and distributed three million SIM cards. These 4G SIMs are available at 50 dedicated MyTel shops and 50,000 distribution retail outlets.

In the past year MyTel has also laid a total of 30,000km of fiber backhaul, accounting for 50% of fiber deployments in the country, the report adds.

MyTel has previously announced a target of attracting 2 million to 3 million customers this year. The operator also plans to become the market’s first operator to offer nationwide 4G services and to deploy 7,000 4G base stations in its first year of official operations.