Yangon eSIM
In Yangon you connect to MPT or Ooredoo, whichever is performing better where you are standing. The typical speed across the country is 22 Mbps. Your data starts working the moment you land, before you reach the immigration hall.
- Networks
- MPT and Ooredoo
- Typical speed in Myanmar
- 22 Mbps typical, 5 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- 4G only
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
How Myanmar compares across Asia
- Regional typical speed
- 42.95 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, MPT, Ooredoo
- 5G
- 4G only
- Next fastest nearby
- Pakistan, 25 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Nepal, 21 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 1: Yangon
Landing at Yangon International Airport (RGN)
- Airport
- RGN / VYYY
- Distance
- 15 km from the centre of Yangon
- Wifi on arrival
- Free wifi in the terminalThe airport names two networks, WiFi@YIA in Terminal 1 and WiFi@YIAT3 in Terminal 3. You register on the network and get 30 minutes free; the information desk helps with registration.
Getting into Yangon
- Yangon Bus Service airport shuttle to Yangon Central Railway Station (RGN)
- Yangon Circular Railway via Mingaladon station near the airport (RGN)
Worth knowing about Yangon
- Yangon's commuter rail is a 45.9 km, 39-station surface loop, and a full circuit takes about three hours rather than being a fast metro.
- The Circular Railway's Mingaladon station sits near Yangon International Airport, but the airport shuttle bus stops at 13 points on the way to Yangon Central instead.
- Yangon airport splits international traffic across Terminals 1 and 2 and puts domestic flights in a separate Terminal 3.
- The Circular Railway runs only from 03:45 to 22:15, so it is not an option for late-night or very early arrivals.
- Yangon International Airport's own FAQ names two wifi networks, WiFi@YIA in Terminal 1 and WiFi@YIAT3 in Terminal 3, and gives 30 minutes free after you register.
- Myanmar's Post and Telecommunications Department allows only two SIM cards registered against one identity document, a rule announced from 1 April 2019.
- MPT requires a foreigner to present the original passport and a copy to register a SIM, and says an unregistered SIM may have outgoing calls and data suspended, or be terminated.
- Myanmar has adopted a Central Equipment Identity Register. From 1 April 2026 an unregistered handset gets 30 days from its first connection to a network, after which taxes and penalties fall due.
- A traveller registering a phone with the CEIR files an application, a passport copy, the boarding pass and the original Passenger Declaration Form within 30 days, and may register at most two phones in a year.
- Myanmar's Cybersecurity Law took effect on 30 July 2025. It does not stop an individual using a VPN, but establishing or providing VPN service without approval from the designated ministry is an offence.
- Providing an unauthorised VPN service in Myanmar carries one to six months in prison, a fine of 1 to 10 million kyat, or both, with confiscation of proceeds.
- OONI's measurements for the first half of 2022 found 112 of 2,130 tested websites blocked in Myanmar, across eleven categories, on six networks, by DNS and TCP/IP level interference.
- In that same OONI testing period Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp showed large volumes of anomalies, while Signal, Telegram, Psiphon and Tor stayed largely reachable.
- OONI recorded Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp blocked from 4 February 2021, Twitter from 5 February, Instagram from 10 February and Wikipedia from 20 February.
- OONI also recorded nightly nationwide internet outages in Myanmar from mid February 2021, running roughly 01:00 to 09:00 local time.
- Yangon Bus Service began on 16 January 2017, and from January 2020 passengers could pay with a smart card as well as with cash.