“We will be selling our SIM cards in the third week of August, but for now we cannot confirm what the calling rates will be,” said Ooredoo public relations manager, Daw Thiri Kyar Nyo.

The cards were being tested by approved sales agents, she said.

The testing "clearly moves Ooredoo one step closer to launch, meaning that for the people of Myanmar the long wait for affordable telecommunications services is nearly over," the firm's sales director, U Myint Zaw, said in a news released.
 
Mobile phone and information technology retailers in Yangon and Mandalay had been supplied with some of the cards to test the network, the director of one of the companies told Mizzima.

"They provided sales agents with SIM cards so the agents could test the strength and weakness of the product and familiarise ourselves with the registration and network activation process," he said

He said that for the time being there were limitations on the connectivity of the SIM cards when using the Myanma Post and Telecommunications network and phones with CDMA technology.