Myanmar cuts wireless Internet service amid coup protests


Myanmar's military junta has ordered Internet service providers to shut down the country's wireless services, telecommunications company Ooredoo said on April 1, 2021. — AFP

YANGON, Myanmar: Myanmar’s wireless broadband Internet services were shut down on April 2 by order of the military, local providers said, as protesters continued to defy the threat of lethal violence to oppose the junta’s takeover.

A directive from the Ministry of Transport and Communications on April 1 instructed that “all wireless broadband data services be temporarily suspended until further notice”, according to a statement posted online by local provider Ooredoo.

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