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... 

Three exhibitions on information and communication technology (ICT) opened in Hanoi on Wednesday, featuring products and services for the mobile internet broadband third and fourth generation (3G and 4G) networks. The events – organized at the Vietnam Exhibition and Fair Center in Hanoi by Vietnam Association for Information Processing, Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Groups (VNPT) and Adsale... 

Taiwan’s leading smartphone maker HTC unveiled its first tablet device with 4G telecommunications technology on Thursday. Fourth generation — 4G — technology provides high-speed broadband wireless services and higher quality image and data services. The HTC Jetstream is due to hit the US market on Sunday, offered by telecom giant AT&T for $699.99 with a two-year contract, the... 

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has issued licenses to some enterprises for providing 4G services on a small scale but it also wants the enterprises to advise on the timing of 4G network’s official launch. Nguyen Dang Nguyen, vice director of MobiFone, said MIC should issue licenses to those enterprises which have provided 2G and 3G networks for launching the 4G service. With... 

Mobile service providers in Vietnam said they are not prepared to offer 4G services as they are more concerned with 3G services. The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) recently collected opinions from mobile providers on the rolling out of 4G services in Vietnam. Mobile phone giants Viettel, VinaPhone, MobiFone, and the EVN Telecom-Hanoi Telecom Joint Venture all said that they were... 

The military-run telecoms group, Viettel, has become the first network operator in Vietnam to allow its customers to use the fourth generation (4G) technology on a trial basis after seven months of getting a licence for the test. Accordingly, from May 12 to August 31, 240 mobile subscribers of Viettel in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City will be provided with 4G USB devices to gain access to 4G services,... 

Apple Inc. is already the envy of the technology world. On Wednesday, it rubbed it in with quarterly results that had only one blemish: It couldn’t make the new iPads fast enough. “We sold every iPad 2 we could make,” Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said. Apple sold 4.7 million iPads of both kinds in its latest quarter, below analyst expectations and the holiday quarter’s... 

While the real benefits of 3G are still being debated, 4G wireless technology is soon to hit the Vietnamese telecommunications market, further adding to the confusion. 3G, third generation telecommunications hardware standards and general technology for mobile networking, was launched in Vietnam in 2009 by Vinaphone, Mobifone, Viettel and EVN Telecom. However, most subscribers complain the quality... 

Current mobile operators will face stricter rules if they want to transfer their licences to others under a newly drafted prime ministerial decision on bidding and transferring radio frequency usage rights. The decision will be issued in the second quarter this year. Accordingly, companies will only be allowed to transfer their frequency to the other firms after operating their telecom network for...