Thursday, June 12, 2008

Taiwan's Chunghwa foray into Cambodia telecom biz

Chunghwa Telecom Plans To Launch Telecom Services In Cambodia

June 12, 2008
By Nguyen Pham Muoi and Alex Pevzner
Dow Jones Newswires

HANOI -(Dow Jones)- Chunghwa Telecom Co. (CHT) plans to cooperate with Vietnamese operator Viettel to offer telecommunications services in Cambodia, Chairman and Chief Executive Ho Chen Tan said Thursday.

"Chunghwa Telecom is working with Viettel to offer telecom services in Cambodia," Ho Chen told Dow Jones Newswires in an interview on a sidelines of a telecom conference in Hanoi.

Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's largest phone company, has been looking overseas for growth, and has a 30% stake in an Internet data storage joint venture with Viettel, Vietnam's largest mobile operator by subscribers.

Viettel, which is run by the Ministry of Defense, is the only Vietnamese telecom company to have received permission to operate telecom services in Cambodia.

Ho Chen also said the company plans to finalize a plan to reduce capital by issuing new shares from the company's capital surplus and will submit a plan to the board by the end of June. He didn't elaborate on the size of the planned capital reduction.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Vietnam already encroachs khmer's territory.
For example, if you are at Memot (Kampong Cham). Your cell's phone will have viet's phone company as a service provider.
It's just illegal.
No cambodians dare to complain.

Khmer Canada

Anonymous said...

fUCKM AH yOUN AND AH cHEN!