Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

HANOI — Southeast Asia is closer to the equator than the North Pole, but an electronics store in Vietnam is ringing in the holidays with a 15-foot Christmas tree made from more than 2500 unusable cellular phones.

There are 15.5 million landlines in Vietnam and 30.23 million mobile phone users, the Ministry of Information and Communication said following a survey.

The Vietnam Posts and Communications Group (VNPT) is in desperate need of $350 million to invest in its Vinasat-2 satellite project.

After years of subscriber growth of as high as 200% per annum, Vietnam's telecom market is showing real signs of saturation.

Vietnam objected to reported plans by China Mobile Ltd. (941) to expand cellular phone coverage to disputed islands in the South China Sea, the state-run Viet Nam News Agency said.

Le numéro un mondial des téléphones mobiles, le finlandais Nokia, a annoncé mercredi l'ouverture l'an prochain d'une usine au Vietnam l'an prochain pour répondre à la demande de téléphones d'entrée de gamme sur les marchés émergents en Asie.

Vietnam had 170 million phone subscribers by December 2010, according to a new report from the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Alcatel-Lucent says that it has signed a contract with Vietnam Posts & Telecommunications Corporation Group (VNPT) and its subsidiary Vietnam Telecom National (VTN), to deliver its end-to-end IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution. This is the first IMS project to be deployed in Vietnam.

PORT-AU-PRINCE - In one of the few offices of Teleco Haiti that survived January's catastrophic earthquake, the customer service agents sit idle. The state-run phone company is barely limping back to service.

HANOI, Vietnam — This time it's not a crazy story about a guy who left a phone in a Silicon Valley bar. The latest clamor over a possible next-generation iPhone prototype has erupted in an unlikely place — Vietnam.

DHAKA — Vietnamese telecom company Viettel wants to tie up with Bangladeshi state-owned mobile firm Teletalk and join other foreign entrants in the fast-growing South Asian market, a minister said Saturday.

HANOI - Vietnam will allow consumers to subscribe to a maximum three mobile phone numbers on each network from next month due to the limited amount of numbers available.

HANOI - Vietnam has awarded the first four licences to companies wanting to offer high-speed 3G mobile phone services, promising millions of cellular phone users a better service by June, a state-run newspaper said.

Alcatel-Lucent annonce avoir été retenu par GTEL-Mobile, un nouvel entrant sur le marché de la téléphonie mobile au Vietnam, pour le déploiement d'un réseau GSM/Edge.

Les technologies et communications vietnamiennes se préparaient l'an passé à multiplier les technologies Wimax et 3G. Voici venu le temps des technologies sans fil à haut débit.