Canadian smart phone producer enters Vietnam

The Canadian smart phone manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) entered the Vietnam phone market last month, following cooperative agreements with the country’s largest network operators including Viettel, VinaPhone and MobiFone.

Under the deal, these network operators will provide Blackberry services for RIM’s mobile phone users in Vietnam at reasonable prices in the near future.

Recently, Viettel, the first network operator supplying Blackberry services in Vietnam, announced a nearly 50 per cent discount to monthly Blackberry service subscribers, with subscription packages to individuals falling from 450,000 – VND550,000 per month to VND250,000 per month.

Viettel will allow pre-paid subscribers in Vietnam to experience Blackberry services through pre-paid monthly or weekly subscription packages.

Viettel is followed VinaPhone and MobiFone, which have announced that they will provide RIM’s services within this month or September at the latest.

Dany Bolduc, RIM Vice President for Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam said, the smart phone market in Vietnam is seeing the fastest growth in the Southeast Asian region thanks to its young population and the country is now a market of rich potential”.

Bolduc also added that Vietnam’s smart phone market is expected to grow by about 40 per cent per year and reach 8 million phones by 2015. – VIR

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Posted by VBN on Aug 12 2011. Filed under Telecommunication. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry