War criminal Min Aung Hlaing attending a celebratory ceremony to inaugurate Mytel as the fourth telecom operator in Myanmar. Source: Myanmar military As Justice For Myanmar has previously exposed, Mytel works in partnership with the Myanmar Army's Directorate of Signals, builds infrastructure on military bases, and provides the military with a lucrative source of off-budget revenue and a means to access international communications technology and credit.37 Leaked correspondence between Geedge and MOTC confirms that in April 2024, Mytel experienced disruptions in their network links related to the "secure web gateway system project" (SWG). A flawed attempt by Mytel technicians to resolve the issue resulted in a meeting, on Mytel premises, between staff of NCSC and Mytel's technicians to address the network disruptions. ATOM Myanmar Limited ATOM Myanmar is one of the four national mobile network operators in Myanmar and has implemented TSG in its Yangon and Mandalay data centres. ATOM Myanmar was formerly operating as Telenor Myanmar Limited, a subsidiary of Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor. Following the military's coup attempt, in June 2021, Telenor announced the sale of Telenor Myanmar Limited to Investcom Pte. Ltd.,38 which became a joint venture between M1 Group, a Lebanon-based conglomerate, and Shwe Byain Phyu,39 a military-linked crony conglomerate, in a widely criticised exit during which it shared sensitive data with 19