Vietnam's fast-growing mobile telephony market has moved a stage closer to deploying 3G (third-generation) technology after awarding a large contract to China's ZTE Corp. for a CDMA 2000 1X network.
Reacting to strong demand for ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) broadband services, the government has allowed a second company to start offering broadband in competition with state carrier Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Corp. (VNPT).
Vietnam aims to increase the number of Internet subscribers in the country to 3.2 million, or 4 per cent of the 80 million population, by 2005, according to a report detailing the government