Lumitel – the brand name of Viettel Group in Republic of Burundi, Africa – achieved pre-tax profit of more than US$7.3 million in 2018, showing a huge increase of 225 per cent from 2017.
Viettel’s subsidiary in Burundi, Lumitel, won the “Best operator in an emerging market” and “Best brand” awards at the 2016 World Communication Awards (WCA) held in Britain last month.
Lumitel, Viettel Group''s mobile operator in Burundi, has signed up
1 million subscribers, or 10 per cent of the African country''s
population, in the four months since it began operations.