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Bharatbook.com: Vietnam – A strong growth to telecommunications, mobile and broadband sector
Vietnam – telecommunications, mobile, band wide and Forecasts Report ( http://www.bharatbook.com/Market-Research-Reports/Vietnam-Telecoms-Mobile-Broadband-and-Forecasts.html ) Gives profiles of dynamic telecommunications market in Vietnam. While by some measures the country is still at a relatively early stage of development telecommunications, Vietnam has been aggressively expanding its national infrastructure and growing subscriber bases across all market segments. Progress in development of the mobile phone market has been particularly impressive, however, the introduction of Internet and especially broadband Internet is still in early stages, although the 2007/2008 period saw a significant increase in online access in the country.
Vietnam has become the target of a new round energy investor interest in recent times. Even amid a global financial crisis many foreign telecommunications companies have been focusing attention on this most significant of Southeast Asian markets. The market is proving to be highly attractive to investors at this time. There general agreement that Vietnam has emerged from a period of wishful thinking – based on the belief that they could "go it alone." The government has overseen the introduction a modest level of competition in the telecommunications market and this, combined with a general improvement in economic climate in the country, has led a round of strong growth in the telecommunications sector.
More recently the move to allow a higher level of 'equitisation' (The word of the Vietnamese government for the "privatization") has sent a clear message to investors that the rules are changing in a positive way and is the investment door opened. An important milestone in this changing business Vietnam's accession to the WTO in 2007, one could say that amounts provided formal confirmation of the changes that had taken place. Not yet entirely clear, however, what form of government involvement in the telecommunications sector will the future. A little surprising development in Vietnam has been the cross-interest in telecommunications.
While there has been strong growth in telephone sector Vietnam Mobile (nearly 70 million subscribers in early 2009, 80% penetration), the country's growth sets the subscriber line has not been as impressive. With the government appears to be a little on the fixed coverage statistics, this market segment has been struggling to some extent in recent years. It seems that the growth has flattened.
Meanwhile, the government continues to demonstrate a certain ambivalence about the Internet, the reluctance of the government has not, however, Internet market left at least begin to move along a path of solid growth. Internet users penetration stood at a whopping 25% in early 2009, with segment increasingly 'hot' this broadband market expanded at an annual rate of around 50%.
This report provides an overview of trends and developments in telecommunications and digital media in Vietnam. Topics covered include:
· Statistics key;
· Market and Industry Overview;
· Environment of regulation;
· Great players (fixed and mobile);
· Infrastructure;
· Mobile Voice and Data Markets;
· Internet, including VoIP and IPTV;
· Services broadband.
Key points:
· Vietnam of wireless market surpassed the mark of 70 million subscribers in early 2009.
• Speed the country's annual growth in mobile subscribers runs in more than 80% and seemed set to continue in 2009/10.
· Interest in broadband services in Vietnam was finally collected and sustained.
· 2008 saw the country's broadband Internet market in strong growth mode, following similar positive waves in 2006 and 2007.
• In general the broadband penetration remained relatively low (10% of households), but all signs that this expansion of the broadband market remains in the short and medium term at least.
· After the successful launch of its satellite VINASAT-1 in early 2008, Vietnam was already moving into its second venture into the market satellites, with planning already started VINASAT-2.
• Despite what at times seemed painfully slow pace of regulatory change, the reality is that change has happened and the telecommunications sector of Vietnam is now a very different market than it was a decade ago.
The following notes some background on our scenario forecasting methodology:
• This report includes what we term scenario forecasts. In describing the long-term scenarios term to identify a band within which we expect market growth to occur. The associated text describes what we see as the growth trend is likely that within this band.
· The projections shown in the tables in this report are based on our own historical information, as well as statistics telecommunications sector official and unofficial sources, national and international. It is part of a possible deviation of 15-20% on these data.
• All GDP statistics, income, etc are shown in U.S. dollars, in order to maintain consistency within and between markets. At the same time, while acknowledging that this may introduce some irregularities.
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