MobiFone, run by Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT), may be the first to introduce 3G technology in Vietnam, said Bui Quoc Viet, director of VNPT’s Information and Public Relations Center, at a press conference in Ho Chi Minh City last week.
Four telecom companies, including MobiFone, Vinaphone, Viettel and EVN Telecom-HT Mobile, are set to get 3G-service licenses next month, an official from the VNPT said.
Earlier, Vinaphone, which is also run by the VNPT, said that it would launch 3G services August 15, beginning in Vietnam’s larger cities that account for about 20 per cent of the country’s total population.
The New York.-based Seeking Alpha Website said, assuming 3G services will be available by the end of 2009, Vietnam is expected to have roughly 43 million 3G subscribers, or 36 per cent of the total subscribers, by 2014.
At the press conference, VNPT also announced it would hold the Vietnam Communications and Vietnam Electronics Exhibition in Hanoi November 18 to 21, with the participation of nearly 200 firms from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, China, Sweden, Thailand, the U.S., and Vietnam.
This year’s exhibition will focus on 3G and broadband technologies, enterprise management solutions, multimedia, and personal digital products, it said.
Vietnam now has 99 million mobile-phone subscribers and 2.4 million broadband Internet users. (Vietnamnet)
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