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Joseph Wild Ramsling

Advocacy Director at SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations), leading corporate accountability campaigns including the Telenor Myanmar data-sharing class action.

Sep 22, 2026

5:16
I asked him to explain how this situation unfolded.
5:21
So I think for this story, it's important to start a few years back, even back over a decade to 2014, which is when there was a semblance at least of democratic opening in Myanmar.
5:38
There were elections and obviously Aung San Suu Kyi was coming to power.
5:43
But obviously, those of you who know or those of the audience that knows Myanmar will know that it was a very precarious time.
5:50
democracy and that the military remained, maintained a large degree of power at that time.
5:57
So in this context, a lot of international business started, saw a business opportunity and a chance to come into Myanmar.
6:06
And so Telenor is a telecoms, a Norwegian majority state owned telecoms company providing connectivity and With the encouragement, in fact, then, too, of the Norwegian government, Telenor sort of rushed into Myanmar, and this was in sort of the second half of 2014, I believe, and came into the country as, won a license as sort of the only independent mobile phone provider, connectivity provider.

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