Leading mHealth in Myanmar’s Smartphone Revolution

In 2010, Myanmar’s military government started making political and economic concessions to open up the country after more than fifty years of international sanctions and isolation. At this time, due to tight government restrictions, a mobile phone SIM card from the government-owned telecom company cost around US$ 1,500 and less than 1 percent of the population had access to the Internet (Hindstrom 2016). Just four years later, foreign telecom competitors were admitted to the Myanmar market and, overnight, the price of a SIM card dropped to US$ 1.50. Following a landslide democratic election in November 2015 that brought iconic Nobel