Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services One Member Co. Ltd. (Mobifone) at 19:00 p.m. yesterday announced that from late afternoon, its network encountered a local congestion, and its subscribers in certain areas found trouble using the service.

After a large-scale network failure in some areas of Ho Chi Minh City, the MobiFone network has been restored as of 11 a.m. on October 24.

AVG has changed hands, but it has not made an official announcement about the deal.

The Commission for the Management of State Capital at Enterprises has appointed Mr. Nguyen Hong Hien as new chairman of the Board of Directors of MobiFone Group, replacing Mr. Nguyen Manh Thang.

Sharing infrastructure will help Vietnamese carriers reduce investment costs and speed up 5G coverage.

Infrastructure indicators are part of the criteria to assess national competitiveness. 

The survey was conducted with 8,400 personal questionnaires and 300 corporate questionnaires, showing the satisfaction level and habits of users of telecommunications services in Vietnam.

The State plans to hold 100 percent of charter capital in only four holding companies: PetroVietnam, Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) and Viettel.

The three largest mobile network operators have deployed 5G, adding Vietnam to the list of the countries commercializing 5G early.

Telecoms service provider MobiFone is making final preparations for the launch of the commercial pilot of the fifth-generation (5G) network next month.

Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) and MobiFone are making final preparations for the launch of the commercial pilot of the fifth-generation (5G) network next month, 

The Telecommunications Department said that the Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group’s (VNPT) license to test the 5G technology has expired and it has asked for extension. 

Viet Nam Mobile Telecom Services Corporation (Mobifone) has launched a system to detect and prevent spam calls using big data technology (Big Data),...

Despite successful 5G pilots of major mobile network providers in Vietnam, this innovative technology has not been exploited to the fullest in the country yet. 

Vietnam’s top four network providers, namely VNPT, Vinaphone, Viettel, and MobiFone, are listed among top 150 most valuable and strongest telecom brands worldwide in 2020, according to an annual report recently released by UK-based Brand Finance.

The Hanoi-based High-Level People’s Court on April 27 upheld the life imprisonment for former Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son, who committed wrongdoings in the MobiFone-AVG deal.

The People’s Procuracy determined that former Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son played the leading role in a case involving MobiFone’s purchase of a 95 percent stake in AVG, an appeal trial in Hanoi on April 24 heard. ​

The High-Level People’s Court in Hanoi on April 23 began a four-day appeal trial for the case involving the MobiFone Telecommunications Corporation’s purchase of 95 percent of shares in the Audio Visual Global JSC (AVG).

Telecommunications providers like VNPT, Viettel and MobiFone will join in the payment market.