Telecom market sees slower growth

Vietnam’s telecom market moves into a slower development phase after many years of enjoying annual subscriber growth increases of 170 to 200 percent.

The General Statistics Office revealed there were a total of 127.8 million telephone accounts nationwide, down 11 percent from last year, with the number of fixed telephone accounts at 15.5 million, decreasing 5.2 percent, and the number of mobile phone accounts standing at 112.3 million, down 11.8 percent.

This was the first time since early year the number of telephone accounts had fallen after four months of rises.

The ADSL broadband market has also seen the number of subscribers in February fall from January levels.

According to telecom specialists, the situation was predictable as the services of network suppliers were improving, so users s only needed to use the services of one operator, instead of two.

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Posted by VBN on Jun 4 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