Ooredoo awards Digicel deal to roll out towers in Myanmar

Ooredoo has awarded a contract to deploy telecom towers in its Myanmar subsidiary to a consortium led by the Digicel Group.

The consortium – comprising of Digicel Group, YSH Finance and First Myanmar Investment – will be amongst the first telecom tower companies to begin construction in Myanmar and will accept multi-tenancy agreements.

Earlier this year, Digicel failed to secure a mobile operating licence in its own right, having lost out to Ooredoo and Telenor.

It is not clear why Ooredoo has outsourced the tower deployment to a company that lost the tender for the operating licence, although Digicel does have an active presence in the country.