The trial is licensed for a period of one year until January 21 next year. Viettel is the first company in Vietnam to receive this license. The military-owned company is allowed to trial the services in Hanoi and HCMC at not more than 73 locations and without charging for the services.

A 5G sign is seen at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 28, 2018.

The company had earmarked $40 million for the development of its own 5G chipset, but was also considering using technology from Ericsson and Nokia, its president and CEO Le Dang Dung told Reuters earlier this month.

Viettel has around 60 million subscribers in Vietnam and over 30 million more in 10 other countries, predominantly in Asia and Africa.

Speaking at a seminar on telecoms innovations at the end of 2018, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung had expressed plans to introduce 5G by 2020, which would make Vietnam one of the first countries to deploy this technology.

5G is the latest generation of mobile Internet connectivity and should offer much faster speeds and more reliable connections on smartphones and other devices compared to the current 3G and 4G technologies.

Vietnamese mobile carriers roll out new prefixes

Mobile carriers in Vietnam have started to shorten their 11-digit mobile phone numbers to 10 digits by replacing some of the current prefixes with new numbers in a move to standardize the length of all mobile numbers.

 

Vietnam receives mobile hi-tech lab from Russia

Representatives of Russia’s Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) handed over a mobile lab to Major General Nguyen Hong Du, Director of the Vietnam-Russia Tropical Centre on September 11 on the sidelines of the fourth Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

 

Hanoi to change mobile phone operator codes from September 15

The capital city of Hanoi will change the 11-digit telephone numbers to 10-digit ones from September 15, stated the municipal Department of Information and Communications on June 14.

 

Forecast on automobile consumption growth to 2025

Vietnam's automobile market has potentials for strong growth from now to 2025, with a vision to 2035. 

 

Vietnamese football fans to enjoy World Cup on mobile devices for the first time

Vietnam Television (VTV) announced on June 10 that it has signed contracts with Viettel, FPT and VNPT for the transmission of intact signals of the matches and companion programmes related to the World Cup 2018 that will be broadcast on VTV channels.

 

Source: VnExpress