The VietNamNet online newspaper co-ordinated with the Việt Nam Telecommunications Authority (VNTA), under the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC), to discuss turning off 2G waves.
Viet Nam spent over US$21.12 billion in 2022 to import mobile phone and components or a decrease of 1.61 per cent over the same period 2021, accounting for 5.89 per cent of the country’s total import turnover.
Despite the slight improvement in volume to 13.4 million units, this figure is still comparable to the 2015 market when it was still in a growing phase.
Sacombank’s Tap to Phone technology was honoured as one of the top 10 excellent products and services in the field of finance-banking-insurance in 2022 by Vietnam Economic Times magazine for a second year.
The Sacombank Tap to Phone technology has won the Sao Khue Award for excellence in digital banking from the Vietnam Software and IT Services Association.
The Viet Nam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) -VinaPhone was awarded the Labour Order, first class, during a recemony held in Ha Noi on Friday marking the 25th anniversary of the first Vietnamese mobile phone service provider.
The COVID-19 pandemic in the last half of 2020 saw Vietnamese people download and use more phone applications than in 2019, according to the Mobile Application 2021 report from Appota Group.
Nearly 60 million mobile phone subscribers in Viet Nam are using only voice and message services, reported the Viet Nam Telecommunications Authority (VNTA) under the Ministry of Information and Communications.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved the pilot application of ''mobile money'', which allows the use of mobile phone credit to pay for small-value goods and services.
The production and import of phones using 2G and 3G technology will stop from the beginning of July, according to a new circular from the Ministry of Information and Communications.