The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) rated Vietnam at the leading position for its telecommunication growth rate, Tran Duc Lai, Deputy Minister of Information and Communication, announced at the 2009 Vietnam International Communication Conference held in Hanoi last week.
US computer giant IBM on Friday announced it had set up its first "innovation center" in Vietnam and forged partnerships with leading Vietnamese universities.
At the Vietnam International Telecom 2009 Conference held on May 20, vice minister of information and communications Tran Duc Lai said the country's WTO entry opened the big opportunity for telecom investment and development companies in the country.
An estimated 10,000 people in rural areas of three provinces will have better access to the internet with the implementation of a US$2.1 million project supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Vietnam will allow private individuals and organizations to develop telecom infrastructure, a sector still strictly gripped by state-owned companies, heard the 6th annual Vietnam e-Government Symposium opening in Hanoi on Tuesday.
HCM City Department of Information and Communication said internet phone-to-phone service f One Connection internet Joint Stock Co (OCI) had violated Vietnamese telecom laws and the provider must stop all unlicensed service provision.
According to the announcement of Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Corp (VNPT), the group has recently joined in a general project with other seven large telecommunication providers in Asia to build up a joint optical cable route to connect the key economies in the region together.
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