Vietnam Signs up 3.2 Mln New Telephone Subscribers in January
Vietnam had an additional 3.2 million new phone subscribers in January 2009, an increase of over 160 per cent from the same period last year, the General Statistics Office reports.
With the new figure, the country had a total of 82.6 million subscribers at the end of January 2009, including nearly 49 million belonging to the Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT).
So far, Vietnam has 2.1 million broadband Internet subscribers.
There are seven mobile networks in Vietnam namely VinaPhone, MobiFone and Viettel S-Fone, EVN Telecom, HT Mobile and GTel.
Vietnam’s information technology (IT) and telecoms sector earned revenues of nearly VND93 trillion (US$5.6 billion) in 2008, a 39.1 per cent increase on 2007. (VoV)
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