August 2020 - FRONTIIR

Myanmar Net BIZ

With cutting edge technologies of Wireless and Fiber, Myanmar Net provides the most Reliable Internet Service for the Businesses. In order to secure connection, both Wireless and Fiber systems are deployed at the same time so that internet can be still accessed even after one line is down. Myanmar Net Biz responds to the need for security and reliability in business by maintaining internet access for up to 40 Mbps, even after one line is down. For business professionals exploring other options, Myanmar Net Biz also provides a Fiber Only Subscription.

Wireless and Fiber; deploy both line at the same time
Internet can be access for up to 40 Mbps even after one line is down
Fiber Only Subscription is also available

Value Added Services

As a value added service, Myanmar Net Biz customers are given free access to Myanmar Cast, providing entertainment and education along with reliable internet access.

Training

Business development includes many objective keys, including employee development. It is one of the vital keys of the company and creates a win-win situation for both the employer and the employees. Frontiir invests in our staff’s professional development because our people are our most important assets.

Most of our employees seek training and want to develop professionally for success in their roles. Our organization actively supports training and education sponsorship programs to improve employees’ skills while working on the company’s future business development.

Frontiir has education sponsorship programs for all outstanding employees, building both our people and our company in the process. Any employee with at least six months’ service can apply to local and overseas education sponsorship programs. Employees need to have two TRAC awards in one year (or) TRAC award and an outstanding standard based on their last performance review.

Local training can be applied to with approval of relevant managers and E-Staff. All local education program fees will be covered by the company. Foreign training requires approval from relevant E-Staff and our CEO. Frontiir will cover 50% of foreign training fees with the remaining 50% of the cost deducted from the employee’s salary.

Frontiir always emphasizes care for our employees. Our company uses its own resources to grow the company. This includes internal and external professional training for polishing our employees’ skills. Any employee can join their relevant training, depending on their level, from basic employees to those in management. Training programs provide support depending on each person’s requirements, ensuring employees are satisfied and motivated.

Our company recognizes grade 1 to 12 employee positions from basic to management level employees. The Frontiir advantage is that we have internal job vacancies and every employee has a chance to join their department of interest with a high level. All they require is to do their job well and work hard to pass their required training. This is our unique internal development plan. Training programs are investing in our most important asset: our people.

We have many training programs within a year for our employees. Every training course has unique advantages and goals specific for employees of differing segments of the organization, such as labour groups, installation groups, engineers, technicians and management. Frontiir fully sponsors all internal training, motivating employees towards continual growth and development.

Our Training

Frontiir’s trainings are focused on technology, business, safety, leadership and management. English language training programs are also provided. Trainings include: Leading and Deciding, Cable Management & Cabling in DC, NAT and CGN, Data Center Planning, Implementation and Design, Metro and ABR OSPE Knowledge Sharing, IGW Transit, Peering and BGP Part 1 to Part 4, MPLS and VPLS, Understanding Core Planning, Basic OH Fiber Cabling, Splicer Maintenance, GPON Fundamental, Outdoor Wireless PTP/ PEMP Backhaul (24G,5G) Training, Checking and Troubleshooting Fiber, SBS Network Deployment, Basic Electronics, Radio Frequency, CS ERP Ticket CS Process Level 1, NAT an CGN, Linux Starter Course, SBS Network and Deciding, FTTH Design and Infrastructure Troubleshooting, Store Operation Management and English Language. As safety is a concern in every part of the organization, Frontiir extends safety training to all personnel.

We make basic electronic training (M&E Training Level I) for grade 2 and 3 employees. Training aims to tackle essential knowledge about electrical power and electronics components to avoid electric shock and protect oneself from electrical hazards. Training offers basic knowledge of electronic components and devices as well as grounding (earthing) and electric safety. Participants are able to understand more about electronics and have greater knowledge about the importance of building earthing and electrical safety to apply to both their personal and professional life.

English language training is the only external training for our company. English is an essential skill of the international business world, so our company supports improving English language skills from basic to advanced for all employees.

Frontiir’s global expert technicians give many internal technical trainings. The trainers are dedicated to familiarizing trainees with essential skill, procedures, and technology, applying their global standard technical knowledge and experience to the benefit and growth of young employees. Training embraces group workshops such as brainstorming, negotiation, and participation for a variety of professional development.

Co-Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO of Frontiir Dr. Godfrey Tan (Wai Lin Tun) gives “Leading and Deciding” training for grade 7 and management level employees. Through his training, he shares his business knowledge, key qualities of an effective leader, problem management, people management, results orientation and rewards system, conflict resolution and self-improvement learning and attitude. Our CEO has developed a guiding business and leadership management towards taking care to all employees and empowering them to bring their best to Frontiir.

Job Creation

One of the integral aspects of Frontiir’s business operating principle is job creation. Since 2013, Frontiir has created more than 30,000 jobs in Myanmar indirectly through its steady supplier program. We also directly employ more than 2,400 people in our organization and are still growing.

Through regular Job Fairs at Yangon HQ, which attracts 1,200 average attendance, Frontiir provides opportunities for both skilled and unskilled job seekers. Frontiir’s rigorous and structured training programs ensure that all employees will be able to quickly skill-up for the post needed as well as prepare for career growth opportunities.

Frontiir’s well established internship program is subscribed by universities across the country, providing opportunities for students with on-job training schemes. The transition procedure for Interns allows the talented students to be able to fast-track to permanent posts as soon as they graduate.

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Our Culture

Frontiir prides itself as an innovative fast-moving technology company with the driving forces of innovative technology, world-class leadership, and a highly capable workforce. Led by international experts, Frontiir’s technical team innovates across software, operating system kernels, networks, and hardware layers to deliver the best user experience with the best cost efficiency.

Frontiir’s core value of “Giving Back” shapes our culture, drives our success and reflects what is truly important to us. Our team is led by Myanmar-born technology experts with vested personal interests in helping rebuild the country. Together with highly capable and enthusiastic Myanmar teammates, we seek to play a key role in accelerating the success of Myanmar. We believe in the good will and determination of the people of Myanmar, and their capacity to achieve remarkable results.

Frontiir demonstrates ethical, fair, and sustainable business models and leads to great success amidst huge challenges in an emerging country like Myanmar. We maintain constant adherence to a commitment to an ethical business culture. We preserve our brand name and image of our company with integrity and diligence.

More than eight years after being founded, with 2,400 employees and two corporate Headquarters, Frontiir still remains true to its IT start-up nature and still focuses on agile innovative technology, striving for the next cutting-edge technology and products to launch. Job creation and investment in human capital being the center of our operations, Frontiir has a rigorous training program and career path outlined for all employees.

Environmental & Social

Frontiir is committed to ensure that we systematically integrate Environmental & Social Management System (ESMS) into our core operations and take all necessary actions to be environmentally and socially sound, and to operate in compliance with the applicable IFC Performance Standards. Frontiir will:

Avoid, minimize or compensate the negative environment & social impacts that are likely to arise from Frontiir’s operations by conducting risk assessment and monitoring
Maximize opportunities for environmental and social benefits
Establish a good reputation and improve relationships with customers, suppliers, stakeholders and regulators by showing that Frontiir is environmentally and socially responsible
Protect the health, safety and welfare of employees
Assess, monitor, review and continuously improve Environmental & Social Management System

Governance & Business Integrity

Frontiir is committed in practicing high standards of corporate governance in respect of all of our activities. Our governance and business integrity’s objectives are to:

Comply with all applicable laws and promote international best practice, including those laws and international best practice standards intended to tackle AML, anti-bribery and corruption and economic sanctions;
To develop a culture that nurture honesty, respect, integrity and fairness
To achieve business success in a transparent and responsible manner
Uphold high standards of business integrity and honesty, including zero tolerance approach to bribery and corruption in all business dealings;
Deal with regulators in an open and co-operative manner;
Commit and adopt good corporate governance practices; and
Implement appropriate whistle-blowing mechanism to facilitate the reporting of wrongdoing and misconduct.

Our Core Values

Learning Center

President Mahn Win Maung Learning Center

President Mahn Win Maung was the third president of Myanmar. He was born in March 1957 and had worked for five years until 2 March 1962 before General Ne Win military Government. He died on 4 July 1989.

In 2019 Frontiir established President Mahn Win Maung Learning Center at former president Mahn Win Maung’s home in Yangon Regional Government Compound, Ahlone Township, Yangon.

Frontiir backed renovation of President Mahn Win Maung’s old home for learning center and founded a library and supported librarians. Frontiir supported the Learning Center intended for young generation notably Regional Government Compound families and youth people.

We supported Computer, English language and basic communication skill training for the children in this Learning Center. We will train many development training sessions for the children every summer.

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Overview

Founded in 2013 by Myanmar-born MIT doctorate and ICT expert Dr. Godfrey Tan (also known as Wai Lin Tun) together with co-founders MIT doctorate Dr. Allen Miu and Mr. Minn Thein, Frontiir is an international company with the main operating subsidiary in Myanmar. Although Frontiir has reputable western investors that follow global governance standards, Frontiir remains firmly in control of Godfrey and his friends. Known simply by his friends and colleagues as “Ko Wai Lin”, he has been leading Frontiir and its popular Myanmar Net service with a passion for engineering and innovation and an unrelenting dedication and focus to provide internet access at a price that everyone can afford in Myanmar. Frontiir employs a few thousand employees across several cities and more than 99% of its employees are Myanmar-born. Frontiir prides itself of being able to do quality innovation recognized at the international level. The popular consumer brand name “Myanmar Net” itself was selected over “Frontiir Net” or other fancy names in 2015 so that Myanmar people can be proud that the affordable and high-quality internet service is made possible by a team of Myanmar-born people united to its mission.

Frontiir’s missions is to provide affordable digital access and useful information services to people while bridging the global digital divide. This mission was achieved with the launch of Myanmar Net brand internet services in Myanmar, which is now providing low-cost high-speed broadband internet services to 2 million users in Myanmar for as little as US$ 0.13 per day.

Myanmar Net network is developed with Frontiir’s unique proprietary technology, which is highly cost-effective, and is the world largest Single Home WiFi network (US-Patented on the Network Access Gateway architecture). In addition to the patented network and systems design, Frontiir’s world class engineers also developed a number of hardware products specifically designed to efficiently deploy within the network. Frontiir received ASEAN Business Award in innovations (2018) and ASEAN Outstanding Engineering Award (2019) for innovative technology. Five years since the deployment of the Myanmar Net network in Myanmar, Frontiir has been able to improve on its technical design and achieve further enhanced cost effectiveness, enabling network expansion to rural areas.

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Frontiir in Myanmar

Upon the liberation of Myanmar telecoms sector in 2014, internet use has rapidly increased from 6 million users in 2014 to almost 22 million users in 2019. Frontiir launched Myanmar Net internet services in 2015, and is the only service provider which serves the poor with low-cost unlimited fast broadband internet with prepaid cards – daily, weekly and monthly, as low as US$ 0.13 a day.

In line with Frontiir’s mission, to provide affordable digital access and useful information services to people and help bridge the global digital divide, Frontiir is proud to be able to contribute largely to increasing the internet access in Myanmar. As of 2020, Frontiir’s Myanmar Net is the largest Internet Service Provider in Myanmar with more than 2 million monthly users in seven large cities and is rapidly expanding.

With its proprietary patented WiFi mesh technology, Frontiir was able to put Yangon and Mandalay on the world map as two of the few cities in the world with WiFi coverage throughout the city, enabling the population to access the internet in public spaces.

Job creation being one of the company’s aims, 99.9% of Frontiir’s 2,400 employees are Myanmar and majority of the employees send their remittance back to their families in the rural areas. Frontiir will continue to create jobs with its rapid expansion to the remaining regions in Myanmar over the next five years, including 8% of the rural areas, creating more opportunities and a greater sense of connection.

Myanmar Overview

The Republic of Union of Myanmar (Burma) is the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia with a diverse population of over 135 different ethnic groups in the country. Predominantly Buddhists (over 87%). Myanmar’s rich cultural heritage started with the Tibeto-Burman Pyu city-state around the second century BCE.

Since 2012, Myanmar has been transitioning to a democratic nation after 50 years of struggle under military rule. Myanmar is an emerging economy with a rapidly growing middle class, and although Myanmar’s transitioning economy still faces challenges from years in isolation and civil wars, the country’s economy has continuously grown at an approximate rate of 6-8%.