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The Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) have sped up the installation and trial runs of IT infrastructure at press facilities and competition venues for SEA Games 31.

Many provinces have requested the Ministry of Information and Communications to direct corporations to urgently assess the demand, feasibility, and investment efficiency to deploy 5G coverage in their provinces.

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) will take proactive steps to develop digital infrastructure, including the rollout of commercial 5G mobile services, which are expected to contribute 7.34 percent to national GDP growth by 2025, Deputy Minister Phan Tam has said.

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on March 17 announced a new economic stimulus package, hoping to breathe life into the pandemic-hit economy.

Since the sixth-generation (6G) commercial network is expected to be introduced in 2030, Vietnam should launch further research and development work for the 6G wireless network right now, even though it has only recently rolled out 5G services on a trial basis, according to an industry insider.

The military-run telecommunication group Viettel posed revenue of over 264 trillion VND (11.48 billion USD) in 2020, up 4.4 percent against the previous year and exceeding its yearly plan by 2.4 percent.

The 5G services can help telecommunications operators in Indonesia increase their revenue by 35 percent, or 8.2 billion USD, by 2030, a recent study shows.

Telecom provider MobiFone announced on March 10 that it has successfully piloted the fifth generation (5G) wireless internet technology in Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Hai Phong cities.

Malaysia’s own security standards will dictate which companies take part in its planned 5G rollout this year, Malaysian Minister of Communications and Multimedia Gobind Singh Deo said on February 17.

Viettel Telecom Corporation has been named Vietnam’s Mobile Data Service Provider of the Year at the 2019 Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific Best Practices Awards recently held in Singapore.

The telecom group Viettel has launched the fifth generation (5G) technology in Myanmar.

More than 1.85 million prepaid mobile subscribers were deactivated in the first six months of the year as they were improperly registered, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC).

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has granted licences to telecom providers Viettel, Vinaphone and Mobifone to test 5G services, MIC Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Hung said on July 5.

The Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group attracted an additional 1 million 4G subscribers in the first quarter of 2019, marking the fastest growth of the firm so far.

The Thai Government will test 5G services in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) in preparation for the development of S-Curve and new S-Curve industries.