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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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Godfrey Tan (aka) Wai Lin Tun, Founder, Chairman & CEO

Dr Godfrey Tan, also known as Wai Lin Tun, is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Frontiir. Dr Wai Lin Tun was born and raised in downtown Yangon and completed his high school education at Dagon 1. He graduated with B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) with the Highest Honors from UC Berkeley. In addition, he holds S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in EECS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His doctoral thesis was about improving aggregate user throughput and providing fairness in multi-rate WiFi networks. He has published more than a dozen papers in wireless networking, cloud computing and business intelligence and holds several US and international patents in the area of networking and computing. 

Godfrey focuses on vision and strategies for Frontiir while driving strategic initiatives, continuous capital efficiency improvements and product formulations. Under his leadership, Frontiir has been continuously developing low-cost proprietary technologies and growing rapidly to provide unlimited broadband Internet service to millions in Myanmar for as low as $0.13 per day per person and $5.3 per month per household. Frontiir today is the largest fixed broadband provider in Myanmar propelling the country’s broadband penetration to new heights in both urban and rural areas alike.

Prior to founding Frontiir, Godfrey spent seven years at Intel, holding various roles as senior product strategist, program manager and lead architect. In his most recent role as senior product strategist, he was responsible for all facets of some of Intel Cloud Services Platform products and drove the strategies and execution of those products from planning and development to beta launch. He also managed the Intel AppUp Developer Program for a year and spent several years as lead architect for the Intel data centers resource management initiative and business intelligence programs for silicon design computing. The successful execution of these strategic initiatives helped Intel save tens of millions of dollars in annual capital expense and has improved business agility since 2007. For his contributions, Godfrey received many awards at Intel, including the prestigious Intel Achievement Award. He also worked as a software developer at Echelon for a couple of years and interned at HP Labs and Mazu Networks.

Allen Miu, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist

Dr. Allen Miu is a Co-founder of Frontiir and serves as Chief Scientist. Before founding Frontiir, Dr. Miu served seven years as a Wireless System Architect and Principal Engineer at Ruckus Wireless, Inc., a newly listed company on NYSE with over USD$1.6 Billion capitalization. Dr. Miu initially helped develop Ruckus’s 802.11n Enterprise and IPTV platforms and later became the chief architect and lead developer behind Ruckus SmartMesh, a WiFi based self-forming, self-healing multi-hop directional wireless networking system. SmartMesh has been deployed to support a wide variety of applications such as Mobile Data offload, Wireless DSL, Hotspots, Hotzones, Femtocell and Picocell backhauling. Dr. Miu works tirelessly with carrier customers worldwide to help plan, troubleshoot, and optimize their wireless deployments.

Having had successful tenure at Ruckus, Dr. Miu now leads Frontiir’s technical team to fulfill the company’s mission of delivering affordable and innovative digital solutions to local schools, businesses, and the common people of Myanmar. Dr. Allen Miu holds a B.Sc. in EECS with Highest Honors from UC Berkeley, and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in CS from MIT. He has published over 10 conference papers and articles and holds 13 US patents on wireless local area networks and mobile location systems.

Minn Thein, Co-Founder & Chief Administrative Officer

Mr. Minn Thein is a Co-founder of Frontiir and serves as CAO. Mr. Thein brings 14 years of consulting, building, and leading globally distributed IT engineering teams delivering highly complex enterprise business solutions to multinational corporations and governments. Prior to joining Frontiir, Mr. Thein was a Senior Director at Avanade where he had built and led high-performing product engineering teams in the area of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) products for Avanade Software and Cloud Services (SCS) organization. Prior to SCS, Mr. Thein worked as a senior developer and architect for Avanade Connected Architecture (ACA.NET) where he designed and built enterprise software development platforms. Mr. Thein holds BSEE from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a technology patent in the area of SOA architecture.

Frontiir, the prestigious company, set up telecommunication business in 2012. At that time Myanmar Telecom business had not developed but our leader team believed we would be stronger. World-class technical experts led Frontiir Company. In 2012, our team opened ERP partner in Myanmar and launched UniNet in Myanmar in 2013.

Our company was Official 27^th SEA Games IT & Networking Partner and Sponsor in 2013. Frontiir provided WiFi Network for ASEAN Summit Metting and launched WiFi in Pun hlaing in 2014.

World-class technical experts’ leaders start Internet service providing within two year of received International Gateway Service Facilities (IGW) Licensee, as well as a Network Facilities Service (Individual) Licensee. Myanmar Net’s affordable unlimited internet was launched, following a showroom opening in 2015.

In 2016, Myanmar Net user reached over 100,000 and started opening KTBG Office in 2017. Frontiir continuously expanded its Myanmar Net affordable unlimited internet from Yangon to  Mandalay, encouraging Mandalay to keep their Wi-Fi connections turned on at all to take advantage of their “A Wa Tone Internet”

Frontiir absolutely succeeded from 2012 to 2018 so New Frontiir Head Quarter opened in Yangon in 2018. Also we made SME show and Myanmar Net Job Fair and celebrated Fifth Anniversary in this year. Frontiir Co., Ltd is proud to have  received “2018 Innovation Award” recognized for its innovative technology by the ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC) in Singapore.

         We opened Myanmar Net showroom and launched TVie new product of the Frontiir in 2019. We supported “U Man Win Maung Learning Center” for Myanmar people in this year. We were awarded “2019 ASEAN Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award”.

In 2020, Frontiir internet service provider “Myanmar Net” expanded internet connection network in Mawlamyine City, Mon State. Frontiir strengths connected widely Myanmar Net internet service at Yangon, Mandalay, Bago and Mawlamyaing Cities from 2015 to 2020.

Frontiir donated many surgical masks, medical mask Health Net Program to support the COVID – 19 Virus protect and controlling process of Myanmar Ministry of Health and Sports , Hospital and Health Department in  COVID 19 pandemic period of 2020.  And we made a job partner with Ascent Capital and they invested US$ 26 million for our Frontiir on June 2020.