VietNamNet Bridge – The number of local companies making overseas investments have been on the rise, with their capital disbursed abroad totaling around US$4 billion out of some US$17 billion pledged for outbound investment,

The existence of OTT (over-the-top) services has taken the bread of mobile network operators’ mouth. Meanwhile, the network operators still cannot find out what they need to do to retain the bread. Blocking OTT services is not a good idea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The winning bidders offered very high prices, therefore, even if Viettel had offered higher by $100 or $200 million, it would not have obtained the contract.

Conflicts of interest between individual Internet Service Providers, and also between ISPs and internet content providers, have prompted a debate and experts are calling for a new ruling from the Ministry of Information and Communications . . .

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is still considering what frequency band to use for 4G LTE, which is expected to be launched in Viet Nam soon after 2015.

VietNamNet Bridge – Mobile operator Viettel has officially asked the Ministry of Information and Communications for permission to raise its fees for 3G services as the current fee structure does not even cover production costs.

VietNamNet Bridge - This is the first time the Military Telecom Corporation (Viettel) will invest in a developed country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has urged Viet Nam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT) to complete its restructuring plan by the end of June.

The green light has turned on for Viettel,a telecom group, to jump into the pay-TV market.

VietNamNet Bridge – Mobile operators have been instructed to increase the quality of the services they provide after an industry survey revealed that 45 per cent of 3G subscribers were dissatisfied with service quality.

The success of Q-mobile when launching Vietnamese brand mobile phones 4-5 years ago has prompted more and more domestic firms to jump on the bandwagon

The number of 3G subscribers and the average used traffic per subscribers have increased rapidly, which has made the initially designed 3G service packages become unreasonable.

Viettel Group will compete with 17 networks providers and seven information technology groups in an international bidding round for a license to supply mobile telecom services in Myanmar.

 VietNamNet Bridge – According to a recent report by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, there has been a sharp increase in the number of companies seeking a licence to export rice.

Viettel, one of the three biggest telecom groups in Vietnam, holds for certain the “admission ticket” to the pay-TV market. What will it do to compete with the existing experienced content service providers?

VietNamNet Bridge – Tough competition plus saturated demand in the local mobile telecom industry forced many firms to either pull out of Vietnam or to make offshore investments last year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local tech firms are unsure about investing in private public projects (PPP) due to the lack of concrete guidance for their implementation in the ICT sector.

 VietNamNet Bridge – 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.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Telecommunications companies will be restructured this year to ensure that there are only three or four healthy companies in the market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi Telecom recently complained that Viettel and VNPT cut its connection channels, causing difficulties for its business operations.