The Vietnamese government has shown it will not play favourites by once again going slow on Nokia’s request for generous investment incentives. Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai last week ordered the Ministry of Planning and Investment and Bac Ninh People’s Committee to get Nokia’s commitments for its proposed $275 million mobile handset manufacturing project [...]
Military-run telecom Viettel has deployed more than 16,000km of fibre optics for its Metfone network and is now has the biggest internet coverage in Cambodia. According to a report from the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications of Cambodia (MPTC), cable network coverage in the country has increased 17 fold in five years. Metfone has 80 [...]
More than 1,000 domestic software and digital content companies will face a hard time on their home turf if they do not improve their capacity to adhere to international standards, according to IT experts. According to a Viet Nam Software and IT Service Association (VINASA) report, total sales revenue from software and digital content in [...]
The VINASAT-1 satellite was successfully launched in 2008 and has become instrumental for the telecommunications industry. There are now developments for the VINASAT-2 satellite, and Viet Nam News sat down with Viet Nam Posts and Telecommunication’s External Relations Centre director Bui Quoc Viet to learn more. Can you tell us about the development process of [...]
The Vietnam Posts and Communications Group (VNPT) is in desperate need of $350 million to invest in its Vinasat-2 satellite project. Bui Quoc Viet, director of VNPT’s Information and Public Relation Centre, told DTiNews that Vietnam was rated among the countries with the greatest satellite development potential in the region. According to Viet, by the [...]
The military-run telco Viettel has officially announced the launch of pre-paid services for BlackBerry users in Viet Nam. The deluxe package provides users with fully functioning BB Mail with a subscription charge of VND100,000 per month, and BB Chat is also available for VND65,000 per month. Two packages for post-paid subscribers provided by Viettel include [...]
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