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Small-scale businesses are taking the lead in the over-the-top content (OTT) service, Nguyen Viet Dung, General Director of Viettel Telecom, said.

Nexttel, Viettel's brand in Cameroon, won the award for best Internet Service Provider in Cameroon at the 2015 Ascom Prizes for communications companies last month.

The military-run telecommunication group Viettel officially provided SIM cards using 4G technology for new subscribers on May 12, a move to realise its plan to offer 4G services to a large extent.

Telecom group Viettel will establish a representative office in Ethiopia in East Africa with the aim of researching the market and promoting investment in the country, Viettel said.

The telecom giant Viettel has made extensive investment in Laos, building a telecom network reaching all corners of the country, turning the once expensive services into a common necessity.

Viettel Global, a subsidiary of the military-run telecommunication group Viettel, aims to develop one or two new markets and attract 8.35 million new customers in 2016.

The Ministry of Information and Communications will grant a 4G LTE licence in the second half of this year, Deputy Minister Phan Tam said at a meeting on April 27.

Viettel Group’s total overseas investment increased by 9 percent to nearly 1.5 billion USD in 2015, an expansion rate four times the average of the global industry.

Myanmar’s Government has selected Vietnam’s military-run telecommunication group Viettel to take part in a joint venture with two local companies.

Mobifone was ranked second among the top 20 most valuable ASEAN telecom brands by the UK-based brand valuation consultancy Brand Finance.

The Hanoi Department of Justice (HDJ) on April 11 worked with Viettel Post to begin using online and express services to register and return judicial records.

President Truong Tan Sang visited the Viettel Tanzania (Halotel) Company – a member of the Viettel Group in the East African country and talked online to Vietnamese workers at the company’s branches.

President Truong Tan Sang hailed Tanzania’s strategic policies on economic development while touring the Benjamin Special Economic Zone in Dar-es-Salaam city on March 10.

People queued up for lucky mobile-phone SIM cards from local telecoms company Vinaphone in the north and the south of Vietnam on March 7.

Lumitel – a brand of the military-run telecommunication group Viettel in Burundi – has become the first 4G LTE service provider in the African country.

Three domestic telecom companies are reported to have registered high growth and revenue in February this year.

The military-run Viettel Group is attending the 2016 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain from February 22 to 25.

Many Vietnamese businesses have recently had considerable success in investing in foreign countries after years of attempts.

Viettel's mobile data subscribers can now download unlimited premium apps and games for a weekly subscription fee of 10,000 VND (45 US cents).

The Prime Minister has approved a plan to raise military-run Telecommunications Group's (Viettel's) charter capital.