VietNamNet Bridge – The big telecommunication and information technology groups in Vietnam like Viettel, FPT and VTC are looking to Cambodia with expansion in mind.
Viettel is now the largest Vietnamese telecom investor in Cambodia. It launched the Metfone mobile network one year ago. After six months, the Viettel Cambodia topped the network, accounting for 42 percent of the total number of base transceiver stations (BTS), 88 percent of the total optical cable and second for subscribers in Cambodia.
This year Viettel Cambodia aims to earn $250 million in revenue and have 3,000 second-generation (2G) BTS, 1,500 3-G BTS and 15,000-16,000km of optical cable.
FPT Telecom has been involved in telecom business in Cambodia for six months, mainly by selling frequency bands at Vietnam-Cambodia border gates. FPT’s general director Nguyen Thanh Nam said that it is the time for FPT Telecom to enter Cambodia to directly serve users. The company plans to cooperate with Mekong Net, one of the two biggest Cambodian IT firms.
Most recently, VTC group introduced the VTC Online Cambodia Company and its first products and services for the Cambodian market.
Nguyen Viet Hung, managing director of VTC Online Cambodia, said that the firm’s products are totally “Khmermizing” and would be put online in late February. The first products are entertainment, education programmes and cultural information.
Competition
Entering the Cambodian market, the most “dangerous” rivals for FPT are perhaps not local firms but Viettel.
“Viettel is expanding investment in Cambodia but as in Vietnam, Viettel’s top priority are mobile services so if FPT Telecom is agile, we can rule the Internet market, Nguyen Thanh Nam said.
However, FPT Telecom’s plans may not go smoothly because Viettel recently stated to strive for a holding of 46 percent of the fixed phone market, 90 percent of the mobile market and 90 percent of the broadband Internet market in Cambodia by 2011.
On June 1 2009, Viettel Cambodia became the first provider of multi-telecom services in Cambodia, including channel leasing, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), broadband Internet, mobile and fixed phone services.
Content services are also promising for Vietnamese investors. Thanh Nam disclosed that FPT Telecom considers Internet facilities as a way of developing content services in the future.
However, FPT Telecom is not a big name in content services in Cambodia just as it is not a big supplier of content services in Vietnam.
The opportunity for VTC in the content service market in Cambodia seems to be bigger because VTC’s subsidiary, VTC Intercom has always obtained 300 percent of growth rate annually for content services in Vietnam since its establishment in late 2006. This year VTC plans to open four branches in Siem Reap, Battambang, Preah Sihanouk and Kampong Cham. It will offer electronic services related to trade, banking, sports, music and fashion.
The rivals of VTC in Cambodia in the content service market are local firms. Mike Gaertner, managing director of the CIDC, the distributor of the most popular online game in Cambodia – Justice X Wars II, spoke to the Phnom Penh Post Office: “They (VTC) will divide the market in two parts. CIDC will react and VTC will react too. It is an interesting moment for the online game industry in Cambodia”.
CIDS currently has more than 120,000 subscribers.
Potential market
Apart from the competitive mobile market with nine networks, including big firms from Malaysia, Thailand, Sweden, etc., other markets in Cambodia are very promising.
According to Nguyen Thanh Nam, the broadband Internet market is still in its infancy but some good signs have arisen. In the last six months, charge for 1Mb transmission have dropped from $1,000 to $300 and will continue falling. “The fall in charges will push demand up,” Nam said.
An official from Viettel said that only 0.12 percent of Cambodian people are Internet subscribers. Viettel aims to raise the rate to 3 percent over the next three years.
As to the content service market, the Phnom Penh Post Newspaper commented: “The local market is still broad for development in comparison with neighboring countries”.
The CIDC’s Gaertner was very optimistic, saying that his firm is not afraid to compete with new rivals from Vietnam because: “Vietnam has 18 million Internet users, 10 million of them are gamers. I hope the same thing will take place in Cambodia”.
Viettel is now the largest Vietnamese telecom investor in Cambodia. It launched the Metfone mobile network one year ago. After six months, the Viettel Cambodia topped the network, accounting for 42 percent of the total number of base transceiver stations (BTS), 88 percent of the total optical cable and second for subscribers in Cambodia.
This year Viettel Cambodia aims to earn $250 million in revenue and have 3,000 second-generation (2G) BTS, 1,500 3-G BTS and 15,000-16,000km of optical cable.
FPT Telecom has been involved in telecom business in Cambodia for six months, mainly by selling frequency bands at Vietnam-Cambodia border gates. FPT’s general director Nguyen Thanh Nam said that it is the time for FPT Telecom to enter Cambodia to directly serve users. The company plans to cooperate with Mekong Net, one of the two biggest Cambodian IT firms.
Most recently, VTC group introduced the VTC Online Cambodia Company and its first products and services for the Cambodian market.
Nguyen Viet Hung, managing director of VTC Online Cambodia, said that the firm’s products are totally “Khmermizing” and would be put online in late February. The first products are entertainment, education programmes and cultural information.
Competition
Entering the Cambodian market, the most “dangerous” rivals for FPT are perhaps not local firms but Viettel.
“Viettel is expanding investment in Cambodia but as in Vietnam, Viettel’s top priority are mobile services so if FPT Telecom is agile, we can rule the Internet market, Nguyen Thanh Nam said.
However, FPT Telecom’s plans may not go smoothly because Viettel recently stated to strive for a holding of 46 percent of the fixed phone market, 90 percent of the mobile market and 90 percent of the broadband Internet market in Cambodia by 2011.
On June 1 2009, Viettel Cambodia became the first provider of multi-telecom services in Cambodia, including channel leasing, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), broadband Internet, mobile and fixed phone services.
Content services are also promising for Vietnamese investors. Thanh Nam disclosed that FPT Telecom considers Internet facilities as a way of developing content services in the future.
However, FPT Telecom is not a big name in content services in Cambodia just as it is not a big supplier of content services in Vietnam.
The opportunity for VTC in the content service market in Cambodia seems to be bigger because VTC’s subsidiary, VTC Intercom has always obtained 300 percent of growth rate annually for content services in Vietnam since its establishment in late 2006. This year VTC plans to open four branches in Siem Reap, Battambang, Preah Sihanouk and Kampong Cham. It will offer electronic services related to trade, banking, sports, music and fashion.
The rivals of VTC in Cambodia in the content service market are local firms. Mike Gaertner, managing director of the CIDC, the distributor of the most popular online game in Cambodia – Justice X Wars II, spoke to the Phnom Penh Post Office: “They (VTC) will divide the market in two parts. CIDC will react and VTC will react too. It is an interesting moment for the online game industry in Cambodia”.
CIDS currently has more than 120,000 subscribers.
Potential market
Apart from the competitive mobile market with nine networks, including big firms from Malaysia, Thailand, Sweden, etc., other markets in Cambodia are very promising.
According to Nguyen Thanh Nam, the broadband Internet market is still in its infancy but some good signs have arisen. In the last six months, charge for 1Mb transmission have dropped from $1,000 to $300 and will continue falling. “The fall in charges will push demand up,” Nam said.
An official from Viettel said that only 0.12 percent of Cambodian people are Internet subscribers. Viettel aims to raise the rate to 3 percent over the next three years.
As to the content service market, the Phnom Penh Post Newspaper commented: “The local market is still broad for development in comparison with neighboring countries”.
The CIDC’s Gaertner was very optimistic, saying that his firm is not afraid to compete with new rivals from Vietnam because: “Vietnam has 18 million Internet users, 10 million of them are gamers. I hope the same thing will take place in Cambodia”.
I hope one of these day someone will kill Hun Sen so Cambodia will having a better future for the young generation. Hun Sen not different from Pol Pot and remember he's a former Khmer Rouge and his mentality never change. Bring him down now before he destroy your future and the whole country. Wake up all Khmers in the country.
ReplyDeletegood idear!
ReplyDelete2:43 PM
ReplyDeleteBe realistic, you hope someone will kill Mr. Hun Sen, so Cambodia will having a better, but an inexperienced person for the new generation. Cambodia already have and build a lot of young generation of Khmer to replace Mr. Hun Sen.
In case you are a Khmer born from outside, but love our country Cambodia, you better return now to and integrate into the Cambodian society. Maybe one day you are the one, able to have the difficulty responsible for our country.
Kill fucking Viet in Cambodia.....all Cambodian, please don't use the 097 coz it is a spy telecom....Fucking Yuon and kick them out off our country...I do hate A Yuoun Kon Toup....
ReplyDeleteHey guys,
ReplyDeleteI am not talking about politic, but about economic concept. More competitors in the market is better than sole source in the market.
I don't care who/where they are from, but if the investors from the neighboring countries is much better than from Europe or America or elsewhere. The reason is the neighboring countries they have the similar culture, economy, leaving condition etc.. so the services they provided and is being provided in Cambodia more cheaper than the existing ones. e.g. Vettel is one of the Telecommunication companies has just been set up in Cambodia, but they have provided a good services and as well as prices to the poor country such as Cambodia.
Remember, since Mobitel company (you knew where they from exactly) has been providing a services more than 10 years in this country and their prices are still higher than other.
this is just one example for you guys to make a comparison.
I really appreciated to have more competitors in the country in order to encourage our young generation to use internet or any other new technologies. please do not think too much about politics, you guys should think back of technologies, it's growing everywhere in the world, but why not in Cambodia.
However, I am not trying to challenge you guys, but this is just my concept to improve the young generation and encourage them to know how big the world. I know you guys are from western countries, but this not adapt to Cambodia, because Cambodia is still poor ok. Thanks
P.S. I used to be almost 20 countries in the world (all 5 continents), I know how development they have had, why don't we together grow our country the same as the others.
Dear 4:55
ReplyDeleteI am not trying to challenge you, but you have to think back, if you dislike about the Vietnamese population in Cambodian is a different component, but I have to think that the private sectors come to invest is to improve the leaving condition of the Cambodian.
I don't support your idea at all, 097 is cheap, then people has the right to use it, if you don't want them to be in Cambodia to make a business, than I know that you can afford to set up a good company in order to help Cambodian population, please come and help them, they are still poor. I know you are from the West, but why don't you come an provide the cheaper price than 097.
I am only a 097 user not a supporter, but the services they have provided is good and cheap. If you really love Cambodian, please come and invest to provide the Cambodia population a good prices and services rather than 097 (Viettel) is serving.
Please remember you also from Cambodia, but now you are in the West, you think that you better than others. NO, I am sorry, I also in the West, but sometime in Africa and sometimes in America too, but I'd like to help Cambodian to grow in term of economic reason, NOT politic, please divide both of them carefully and think of the leaving condition of our own population first.
P.S. If you can afford to set up a good service in Cambodia, then you are most welcomed.
Cheers,
Isn't the government of Vietnam censor the internet activities of their citizens? Especially those who dear to speak ill of the communist mindset.
ReplyDeleteMetphone is good,competition is good.
ReplyDeleteYou racists should have a good look at yourselves
The telecommunication business is a very sensitive topic if you really think about it especially dealing with privacy and national security! This is amazing that after 30 years of Hun Sen's rule in Cambodia and Cambodia doesn't even have a single domestic
ReplyDeletetelecommunication business to talk about and this is such a shame!
Like they said you pay for what you get! Now does cheap price go together good service and privacy and fair competition? Of course not!
The question is why Vietnam can afford to built their satellite system and Cambodia can not? It doesn't cost that much to built a satellite system and the benefit of having satellite system is far more beneficial for Cambodia in the long run than to rely on Vietname or Thailand satellite system!
Let do the number! If Cambodian people willing to spend $250 million a year on basic telecommunication services. Now how much does it cost for Vietnam to set up such telecommunication system.
Well the first Vietnam satellite called VINASAT-1 cost only $300 million to put into space and the life span of this satellite is 15 to 20 years! As you can see Vietnam is making a killing obscene profit in Cambodian telecommunication market and thank in part to our dumb fuck AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave mother fucker!
Now Vietname is ready to put another satellite into space by 2012 called VINASAT-2 cost between $290 million and $350 million!
As you can see here and there are huge potential for Cambodian government to enter telecommunication market but why don't they? Is it because Cambodian people are so dirt poor or is it Cambodian government is so corrupted? What is in for AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave government to allow the Vietcong government to monopoly the whole Cambodian telecommunication market? What is it? And I don't see Viettel telecommunication benefit Cambodian people in anyway especially in the long run!
"Vietnam will become the sixth Southeast Asian country to have a satellite in orbit."
Please check the following website for more information on VINASAT-1 and VINASAT-2!
For VINASAT-1
http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/vietnam-to-launch-first-satellite-in-april
For VINASAT-2
http://satelliteweb.com/civilspace/headlines/33105.html
Hun Sen is very afraid of Viets. he dares not say a word to his master Hanoï. The Viets do what they want in Cambodia. Cambodia is gradually turning into Vietnam province.
ReplyDeleteAh Hun Sen khlach youn nas !
Nowadays all around srok KHMER is using YUON devices language every corner.
ReplyDeleteYUON DSL
YUON CABLE
YUON PHONE
YUON CELL
YUON 3G-4G
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UNACCEPTABLE!!!!
Under Hun Sen rulership, Yuon have dominate everything.
ReplyDeleteDemocratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
ReplyDeleteMembers:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
What the fucking comopetition ah Shae Khoun don't let company to DROP the price for the advantage to the costomers!!!!
ReplyDeleteMay mother fucker ah Youn Yeakname vietnamese shit head go to hell!
Hi
ReplyDeletewe should not use what belong to vietnam.