Public telecommunications services supply programme by 2025 approved hinh anh 1Illustrative photo (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has signed a decision to approve a programme on the supply of public telecommunications services by 2025.

The programme offers compulsory services for society and universal services for remote, border and island areas and those with extremely difficult socio-economic conditions.

It targets supporting 800,000 poor, near-poor households, social welfare beneficiaries, and others to get data terminal equipment for learning and communications. Meanwhile, 100 percent of the communes with extremely difficult socio-economic conditions as well as island communes and districts will be assisted to secure access to public broadband internet services.

Public telecommunications services supply programme by 2025 approved hinh anh 2Illustrative photo (Source: ictnews.vietnamnet.vn)
In particularly, the programme will equip its targeted households with 400,000 tablets, as well as partly finance the cost of 400,000 smart phones for those in need.

Notably, fishermen will be subsidised to pay for their use of maritime mobile telecommunications services./.
VNA