The first quarter saw the Southeast Asian country import $3.079 billion worth of mobile phones and components, a 22.4 per cent increase compared to last year and the 5th largest import of the country.
The use of second-hand mobile phones is a growing trend, including among youths, because of their reasonable prices and the lack of need for many technologies in high-priced new phones.
VinSmart said it sold more than 1.2 million Vsmart mobile phones after 17 months of joining the market, meaning that at least one out of 100 Vietnamese people use the brand.
Mobile telecom provider Vietnamobile announced on Tuesday its partnership with Samsung to become one of the first operators in Viet Nam to provide VoLTE and VoWifi voice call services.
The are more online shoppers use mobile phones to access trading websites than using desktops or tablets, reported by Bizweb at a recent mobile e-commerce event.
Viet Nam will reform the structure of export goods and increase quality
of export products to strive for sustainable exports and increase its
value by this year-end and beyond.
Viet Nam''s exports of telephones and components hit US$17.1 billion in
the first seven months of this year, increasing by 28.2 per cent compared to the same period of last year.
Desktops and laptops are beginning to feel like relics these days.
Mobile phones are the new HR frontier. If your company isn''t using
mobile phones to recruit or make referrals, you run the risk of losing
out on top talent.
A total of 28.7 million mobile phones were shipped to Viet Nam last
year, 13 per cent more than in 2013, according to the International Data
Corporation''s Asia/Pacific Quart-erly Mobile Phone Tracker.
South Korea''s Samsung Electronics Vietnam Thai Nguyen (SEVT) Co Ltd recently sent a
document to the departments of labour, invalids and social affairs of
cities and provinces.
PetroVietnam Insurance Corporation (PVI) is co-operating with Viettel,
the largest Vietnamese mobile network, to provide insurance services on
mobile phones, known as Mobile Insurance.
Mobile phones and electronic components had the largest share of the
total Vietnamese export revenue in the first eight months of 2014,
according to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam.