The 3G services market in Vietnam has continued growing strongly and even achieved the highest growth in Southeast Asia even though the technology has just been launched over the past three years at home, Qualcomm said. Thieu Phuong Nam, general director of Qualcomm in Indochina, said the growth of 3G services in Vietnam is growing strongly and has attracted 20 million subscribers after three years... 

Mobile networks’ 3G services have posted strong growth despite the nation’s protracted economic difficulties, becoming a major revenue generator of local mobile phone services firms. Tong Viet Trung, deputy general director of military-run telecom firm Viettel, said its 3G service gained positive growth last year although other mobile services got into many difficulties. 3G services are contributing... 

The local mobile game market has seen strong growth over the past time and the sector is expected to generate big revenues this year, local experts said. Le Tuan Anh, deputy director of VTC Mobile Company, said that mobile game service has developed strongly and expects to gain around VND300 billion in revenues this year compared to last year’s VND100 billion. The strong rise is attributed to an... 

Trading low-cost smartphone products now is considered a lucrative business activity of the cell phone retail industry in the context that consumption in the whole industry is on a downtrend. Dinh Anh Huan, sales director of Thegioididong.com, said given the current economic slump, local demand for cell phones has tumbled. However, demand for smartphone products, focusing on low-cost phones, has... 

Qualcomm, one of the world’s leading 3G chipset suppliers, has forecast 3G mobile service subscriptions in Vietnam will shoot up at a two-digit rate annually in the next few years. Speaking to local media on Tuesday, John Stefanac, chairman of Qualcomm for South East Asia & Pacific, said there is a boom of experiencing 3G services here in the country. He predicted the nation’s 3G subscription... 

Statistics of the General Statistics Office (GSO) show there was no growth in new broadband Internet subscriptions in April-August, which stayed at 4.4 million users, but in reality, broadband Internet services in the country were expanding in the period. This partly results from the different statistical methods and changes in the way people use the Internet. Bui Quoc Viet, director of the Information... 

Vietnam has 16 million 3G (third generation mobile telecommunications) subscribers benefiting from wide-area wireless voice messages, mobile Internet access, video calls and mobile TV by the end of May. The figure represents a 20 per cent increase over December 2011, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications. Of the four mobile operators that provide 3G services, MobiFone has the... 

Viettel, one of the very few local firms to be involved heavily in research and development (R&D) activity, has set the target of obtaining the area’s revenue of up to US$1 billion by 2015, said the Viettel R&D Institute. The military-run mobile operator aims to increase the current number of staff to 10,000-15,000 by 2015 as cited by Nguyen Dinh Chien, head of the institute. It plans to... 

Despite getting a licence to change itself into S-Telecom Company Limited with $452.3 million in total registered capital, S-Fone’s leaders have yet to unveil who will be the key strategic partner. At its seven-year foundation anniversary in July 2010, S-Fone once declared it had 7.5 million subscribers and was the fourth largest player in local telecom market. However, according to Ministry of... 

Due to inefficiencies related to the country’s 3G mobile service providers, the licence for the more modern 4G service will be put on hold until around 2018, experts have said. This was one of the leading issues discussed at a recent conference on the national telecommunications development plan by 2020, held by the Ministry of Information and Communications in Hanoi. After three years developing...