This article investigates the experience of distance and proximity reconfigured through mobile phone use in the intensely migrant society of Myanmar, where about three million people are working in Thailand, its neighboring country. As communications are essential for maintaining family and social life, the easier access to smart-phone technology in Myanmar has transformed the relationships at-a-distance. The paper studies how the recent transformation of the Burmese telephony technoscape creates facilitators in overcoming long-distance and managing social relationships. It provides evidence for the emergence of connected social bonds and mediated proximity in the economically-open Myanmar.