Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

HANOI – The number of telephone and Internet subscribers has posted slow growth last year as shown by a recent report of the General Statistics Office (GSO) but the information is doubted.

VTC and FPT, the big guys in the high technology sector, have announced that they would develop specific e-book formats which would be decoded only by their reading software pieces. This is a part of the programme to struggle with book piracy.

HA NOI – Viet Nam will delay licensing mobile operators to provide fourth generation network (4G) services until 2015, after service providers carry out test runs and an assessment of market demand for the new technology.

The country’s two leading telecommunications companies VNPT and Viettel will team up with Facebook and 10 other Asian telcos to invest in a 10,000km undersea cable project.

The world’s largest mobile phone maker Nokia this week starts work on its first factory in Vietnam.

State-run Vinaphone and MobiFone, which together hold the majority of subscriptions in Vietnam's mobile phone market, are to be merged as part of a restructuring process, senior industry officials were quoted as saying on Tuesday.

Vietnam's telecommunication, information technology industry did not have many prominent events like previous years in 2011 but there were few big qualitative changes. Top events of the industry are hereafter:

While the prime minister has yet to decide on whether to transfer EVN Telecom to Viettel, this military-run telecom company has fully prepared itself to take over the money-losing mobile service provider.

Hanoi - Police in southern Vietnam have detained 62 people on suspicion of impersonating officials to steal millions of dollars, authorities said Tuesday.

Le Vietnam est considéré comme un membre brillant de l'Union internationale des télécommunications (UIT)", a observé Hamadoun Touré, secrétaire générale de l'UIT qui vient d'effectuer une visite au Vietnam afin de discuter de la gestion de la sécurité de l'information sur Internet ainsi que de partager les expériences mondiales dans le développement des infrastructures à large bande.

Vietnamese mobile operators VinaPhone, MobiFone and Viettel's 3G subscribers base is growing number after nearly two years of providing the service, reports the VNS.

Above a group of workers painstakingly sorting through tiny components in 4P's electronics factory on the outskirts of Hanoi hangs a poster that reads: "Nothing endures except change."

En 2011, la croissance du marché domestique des téléphones portables est estimée à 15%. Les appareils à prix modéré sont notamment très prisés. Autrement dit, les portables made in Vietnam ont la cote.

The 13th International Exhibition in Vietnam on Telecommunications and Information Technology, or the Vietnam Telecom/Electronics-Internet & IT 2010, will take place in HCM City from November 17-20.