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(Vietnam News 30/06/2009) VietNamNet Bridge – Viet
Nam had 101.7 million telephone subscribers by the first half of this
year, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications.
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Viet Nam has six mobile phone service
providers: Vinafone, Mobifone, Viettel, S-Fone, EVN Telecom and
Vietnamobile. Next month, the domestic market will welcome Beeline. | The
total included 82 million mobile phones and 19.7 million
fixed-telephone, wireless fixed-telephone and intra-city mobile
networks.
These figures indicated the high growth of the domestic telecom market, said the ministry.
Le Doan Hop, Minister of
Information and Communications, said the domestic telecom market had
developed well over the last two years, despite the global economic
crisis and resulting inflation.
Revenue was still up and
many new mobile phone service providers were entering the market, Hop
said, adding that mobile phone service charges were getting cheaper.
"The cost of mobile services in Viet Nam is lowest in the region and the world," Hop said. To read the whole article, please click here.
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