Pandemonium breaks out at mobile shops as MPT slashes SIM prices

Customers have been pushing and shoving each other in lines outside mobile-phone shops in Yangon and Mandalay since Myanma Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) began selling SIM cards for K 1,500 apiece on September 1, customers said.

The price cut follows a move by its first foreign rival, Myanmar Ooredoo, which began selling SIM cards at that price last month.

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Cheap MPT SIMs cause shop queues

Myanma Post and Telecommunications (MPT) attracted queues of SIM buyers to Yangon shops last week by offering SIMs for K1500 – well below prices which previously stretched into the hundreds or thousands of US dollars in the past decade.

Crowds gather at a mobile shop to buy MPT SIMs. Photos: Naing Win Tun

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