With tightened management over pre-activated SIM cards, the number of mobile phone subscriptions was 125.8 million last year, a year-on-year decrease of 3.5 per cent.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said he wants the Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel) to strive to become one of the world’s 10 biggest telecommunications firms by 2025.
Only about 40 per cent of Viet Nam''s 95 million people have bank accounts, mostly in urban areas, while there are around 120 million mobile phone subscriptions
