Internet users in Vietnam exceed 31 mln by july

By the end of July Vietnam has 31.1 million internet users, up 24%, and four million broadband internet subscribers, up 19%, year-on-year, according to the Vietnamese General Statistics Office (GSO) on Friday.

The country has about 128.1 million telephone subscribers, a year-on-year increase of 4.3%, of which there are 15.5 million fixed telephone subscribers, up 0.4%, and 112.6 million mobile phone subscribers, up 4.8%.

A latest report by Nielsen global insights and measurement company said about 41% of Vietnamese internet users have accessed the internet from mobile phones, 96% have visited a social networking site, and 81% use social media as a resource in purchase decisions.

Vietnam’s population was about 87 million by the end of 2010.

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