Regional shutdown
Mobile Data
Rakhine
Myanmar’s Ministry of Transport and Communications ordered mobile phone operators to ‘stop mobile internet traffic’ in nine townships in Rakhine State and Chin State due to ‘disturbances of peace and use of internet services to coordinate illegal activities’.
- Total Duration 594 days
Myanmar
- Population
- 54,133,798
- UN Classification
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- Least Developed Country
Freedom House rates Internet freedom as Not Free
Local impact
Myanmar’s Ministry of Transport and Communications ordered mobile phone operators to ‘stop mobile internet traffic’ in nine townships in Rakhine State and Chin State due to ‘disturbances of peace and use of internet services to coordinate illegal activities’.
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