EVN Telecom posted revenues of nearly VND2.43 trillion last year. The transfer of EVN Telecom, a unit of state utility Electricity of Vietnam, to Viettel has started and will be completed by the end of March, news website VnExpress reported. EVN Telecom posted revenues of nearly VND2.43 trillion (US$115.5 million) in 2011, equal to just 62.7 percent of [...]
EVN Telecom is an arm of the state utility Electricity of Vietnam Vietnamese cable television firm VTC said it is still pursuing a plan to buy a stake in EVN Telecom, an arm of the state utility Electricity of Vietnam. Nguyen Hoang Phong, director of VTC’s Digital Communications Co., said Thursday that EVN Telecom has [...]
Military-run telecom giant Viettel said it plans to acquire EVN Telecom, a subsidiary of state utility Electricity of Vietnam, in what will be Vietnam’s first M&A deal in the local mobile sector. The acquisition, if approved, will be completed in November, news website VnExpress reported Tuesday, citing Viettel officials. The company will first have [...]
The Asia America Gateway (AAG) cable has broken for the third time this year, leaving international internet connections from Vietnam shaky as of Tuesday, Vietnam News Agency said in a report.  The military-run telecommunication provider Viettel Telecom said the incident will affect its service and that of other providers that use AAG, an international undersea cable [...]
Viettel has launched a customer testing phase for its 4G network in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City Telecom giant Viettel announced Thursday that it has successfully tested its high-speed fourth generation mobile services, becoming the first wireless network in Vietnam to apply the technology. The military-run company on the same day launched a customer [...]
A computer science class at a high school in the northern province of Quang Ninh All education and training institutions in Vietnam with access to electricity have free access to the Internet, and this is a singular achievement, says Quach Tuan Ngoc, head of the Ministry of Education and Training’s Information and Technology Department. Ngoc [...]
A branch office of Viettel in Vietnam Local telecom giant Viettel said its joint venture in Haiti is building infrastructure to launch a wireless service in the Caribbean country in 2011. Natcom, the venture between Viettel and Haiti’s Teleco, will build 1,000 base transceiver stations for the service. It has completed five stations which are [...]
The Ministry of Information and Telecommunications said Thursday local wireless carriers are not allowed to lower rates before Tet, the Lunar New Year festival starting next weekend. According to the ministryâs Telecommunications Department, any rate cut by large companies at this point would trigger a price war, negatively impacting the domestic market and hurting small [...]
A rate cut by Vietnamese telecom firm Viettel starting Monday has not been approved by the Ministry of Information and Communication, an official said. Pham Hong Hai, director of the ministryâs Telecommunications Department, said Monday that the plans to lower mobile service prices proposed by Viettel and other two wireless giants, MobiFone and Vinaphone, were [...]
Mobile carriers have completed their network upgrades to reduce jamming incidents caused by overload during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday . . . Viettel now has around 48 million subscribers.Tran Minh Huy, deputy director of Viettel Telecom in HCMC, on Monday told the Daily that network jamming in the Lunar New Year, or Tet, [...]
