Viettel, the Vietnamese military-owned telco is establishing its inroad into Cambodia. Would Cambodians be confident enough to trust their private discussions on network lines belonging to Viettel? With talks of information censure in China, and the fact that the Vietnamese government is still an authoritarian communist regime, it is difficult not to make the parallel between the Chinese government misbehavior and that of the Vietnamese government. (Photo: Nhan Dan)Viettel leads charge into Cambodia
Nhan Dan
May 8, 2006
Viettel, the country’s second-largest telecommunications company, has become the first Vietnamese telecom provider to operate overseas after it received a license to offer its services in Cambodia.
The military-owned telco has a ten-year license to establish the Viettel Cambodia Pte Company, and 100% of its US $98,000 investment capital will come from Vietnam.
Viettel will initially conduct a feasibility study of international Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and mobile phone services on the Cambodia market before establishing its network and installing equipment.
A Viettel official said this was the first step in its expansion plans for the Indochina region.
“We will study the Cambodian market to decide which service to offer first. The decision will be made in October and we will register another license to establish a company in Laos later this year,” the official said.
Cambodia has population of about 13.4 million people and last year had a teledensity of 3.6 lines per 100 people, of whom 60% were mobile subscribers.
Viettel earned VND 3.1 trillion (US $199.1 million) in revenue last year, which was a 126% year-on-year increase on 2005. It signed up 1.7 million new telephone subscribers last year, raising its total number of subscribers to two million.
The country’s largest telecom operator, Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group, will also expand into overseas markets through the regional holding alliance ASEAN Telecom Holding/ACASIA. The government has recently given its in-principle agreement to VNPT’s involvement in the alliance.
Under the alliance, the VNPT subsidiary Vietnam Data Communications Company (VDC) will act as the local partner for the alliance. It has signed a technical agreement to install a data transmission node in Vietnam that complies with regional standards. (VIR)
The military-owned telco has a ten-year license to establish the Viettel Cambodia Pte Company, and 100% of its US $98,000 investment capital will come from Vietnam.
Viettel will initially conduct a feasibility study of international Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and mobile phone services on the Cambodia market before establishing its network and installing equipment.
A Viettel official said this was the first step in its expansion plans for the Indochina region.
“We will study the Cambodian market to decide which service to offer first. The decision will be made in October and we will register another license to establish a company in Laos later this year,” the official said.
Cambodia has population of about 13.4 million people and last year had a teledensity of 3.6 lines per 100 people, of whom 60% were mobile subscribers.
Viettel earned VND 3.1 trillion (US $199.1 million) in revenue last year, which was a 126% year-on-year increase on 2005. It signed up 1.7 million new telephone subscribers last year, raising its total number of subscribers to two million.
The country’s largest telecom operator, Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group, will also expand into overseas markets through the regional holding alliance ASEAN Telecom Holding/ACASIA. The government has recently given its in-principle agreement to VNPT’s involvement in the alliance.
Under the alliance, the VNPT subsidiary Vietnam Data Communications Company (VDC) will act as the local partner for the alliance. It has signed a technical agreement to install a data transmission node in Vietnam that complies with regional standards. (VIR)
9 comments:
What make it different from now. Aa kaatop have better ear than aa kwack?
Hahahaah is Cambodia going to get a real close ear drop now. We control by the Hanoi and now they put a freaken phone company in our country to spy on people. Please dont use viet stuff it better of.
Cambodia should definitely boycott this telecommunications company.
Tell ah kwark to stop using youn stuff, can the ah kwark have it own company instead.
GREAT TELL ALL KHMERS TO BOYKOTT THIS COM. USE WHAT WE HAVE.
THAT IS THE PRIDE OF HUN SEN WHEN SEE THE INVEST FROM YOUN EVEN ONLY us$98, 000.
What is happening to Cambodia? are we totally runs by the Hanoi soon like LAOS?
All Cambodians live inside and outside should not buy Vietnam's products. Boycott all their products. spread the words and email to your relatives and friends.
Tous les Khmers have to boycott everything to belong to Vietnan
The Vietcong lost their influence over Cambodia to China and this is one way for the Vietcong to hang on to Cambodia. ahahah..The Vietcong will never stop!
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