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Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son, accompanied by executives of Vietnam’s top telecom companies, are on a visit to South Africa from October 16-18.

Bitel telecommunication service provider, the Peru branch of Vietnam’s military-run telecom group Viettel, will invest an additional 250 million USD to increase its subscribers to 2.5 million people.

The military-run Viettel Group has officially launched its telecommunication services in Tanzania under the trademark Halotel.

The military-run Viettel Group launched its telecom services under the brand name Halotel in Tanzania on October 15.

The military-run telecommunications group Viettel’s branch in central Quang Binh province granted scholarships to 60 disadvantaged students in Quang Trach district on October 14.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has asked the Cameroonian government to roll out critical measures to preserve the legitimate rights of Vietnamese investors.

Four Vietnamese footballers will soon play at the Japanese's J.League 2.

Local network providers are racing to develop 4G service as they await the green light from the Ministry of Information and Communications, which has not yet put out bids to choose providers.

Three major mobile service providers will run technical tests in December, six months later than planned, for operating switching networks without consumers needing to change phone numbers.

The military-run telecom Viettel’s branch in central Thanh Hoa province presented 160 bicycles worth 1 million VND (44.5 USD) each to impoverished students in mountainous Quan Hoa district.

Viettel Group is going to pilot 4G technology in October, said Do Minh Phuong, deputy general director of the Viettel Group.

Viettel has become the biggest telecom company in Vietnam 15 years after it was established and has been one of the country's few successful investors abroad.

The military-run telecommunications Viettel Group provided 2,787 cows to impoverished households in the northern mountainous province of Son La between September 2014 and June 30 this year.

Lumitel, Viettel Group's mobile operator in Burundi, has signed up 1 million subscribers, or 10 percent of the African country's population, in the four months since it began operations.

Viettel Tanzania has helped Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) win the award for the Best Investment Project 2014 in East, Central and West Africa Region, held in Dubai.

The Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a programme on public utility telecommunication services from now to 2020.

Nexttel, a brand of the military-run telecommunications group Viettel, has increased its Cameroonian users to 2 million after 9 months in the Western African market.