Vietnam’s leading telecommunications services provider FPT Telecom Corporation (FPT) signed a cooperation agreement with PCCW Global, a subsidiary of Hong Kong’s premier telecommunications provider, PCCW Limited in Hanoi on August 25. The two sides will interconnect their Ethernet networks for improved international network coverage and service availability. This collaboration is an expansion of the long-standing [...]
Vietnam’s government has asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment to weigh a request by mobile phone maker Nokia concerning preferential treatment for its first plant in the country. Nokia plans to build the handset factory in the northern province of Bac Ninh with an initial investment of around 200 million euros (US$275 million). The [...]
Vietnam’s mobile phone exports enjoy a $1.43 billion trade surplus for the first seven months of this year, according to the General Customs Department. Exports of mobile phones and spare parts earned $2.59 billion, three times higher over the same period last year, while imports stand at $1.16 billion, data from the customs department shows. [...]
Vietnam has seven mobile network operators with more than 120 million subscribers. The Ministry of Information and Communications is finalizing a plan to allow mobile phone users to switch to a different network without having to change their numbers, news website VnExpress reported Saturday. The plan has been created based on trends in other countries [...]
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 [...]
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