A committee of Rohingya survivors claims that a Norwegian Foreign Ministry report improperly absolves Telenor Telecommunications of any responsibility for when the Myanmar Army fired on innocent villagers from a Telenor telecoms tower in Rakhine State.
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The decision by a Norwegian telecommunications firm to pull out of Myanmar following the junta’s Feb. 1 coup d’état will deal a blow to the country’s already struggling economy and grant the military significantly more control over the privacy of its citizens, according to experts.
On July 8, Norway’s Telenor Telecommunications Co. announced that it plans to sell all of its existing services in Myanmar to Lebanese firm M1 Group. Telenor chief executive Sigve Brekke said in a statement that the company decided to leave the country after nearly a decade of doing business there because of growing challenges in terms of compliance with rules and regulations.