The cities offer some free Wi-Fi hotspots in hotels, cafes or airports, as well as higher incomes areas, while the countryside is once again disproportionately impacted by the turnback. The cost hike in July only targeted phone data, but then in September, at-home Wi-Fi and Fiber packages prices also shot up, at the great despair of the informant from Rakhine. “We can’t install Wi-Fi because my house sits between two hills, and the lines are not there. I asked my friend who has Wi-Fi if I could come to his home to follow my lessons, but he told me that he will cancel his subscription because the line connection is poor and because he can’t afford it anymore. It tripled to 75,000 MMK per month for all operators except Mytel, which kept it at 25,000 MMK for now. They want to take everything from us and force us to support their companies.” The culmination of the coup, the incessant Internet and electricity cuts, the rising poverty as well as the risks of communicating on the phone, meant a sharp downturn in profit for telecommunications operators. All Myanmar-based operators chose to suspend their investments and steadily raise the price of data packages for Internet access as an attempt to limit their losses from July. The one exception is Mytel, the joint venture between Vietnam and Myanmar military officials. Mytel offered discounts as an attempt to keep its previous ten million customer base after being targeted by a widely followed boycott campaign. Since the coup, Mytel has been at the center of an intense political and economic clash. "As of August 2021, MytelPay, Easy Pay and MPT Money are on the Civil Disobedience Movement’s (CDM) list of boycotted entities, along with Asian Green Development Bank, the two military-owned banks and four stateowned banks,” according to IEM’s “Myanmar’s Banking Crisis”. The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) describes Mytel as "nothing but the Tatmadaw in commercial form. Representing a serious conflict of interest, tenders for the erection of towers were famously given to a company owned by Min Aung Hlaing [4] ’s daughter and National Tower Development, another Singapore venture with links— through director Patrick Aung—to Burmese arms seller Aero Sofi. Mytel has also been accused of land rights abuses, including illegally developing infrastructure on ethnic Kayin land." 12