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.
At a press conference on the occasion of Bitel’s one year anniversary, Bitel General Director Hoang Quoc Quyen said since 2011 the enterprise has built 17,000 kilometres of cable in Peru, the largest cable network in this South American country.
Bitel expects to count its one millionth mobile subscriber by the end of this month and aims to have 2.5 million users in 2016, Bitel Communication and Advertising Manager Rafael Torres said, highlighting that it will mean Bitel will become the dominant mobile network in Peru.
The company is now ready to provide fixed wireless phones and internet services for organisations and enterprises as well as free internet access for nearly 4,500 schools, medical stations and other public places in Peru.
On October 15, Viettel launched its telecom services under the brand name Halotel in Tanzania.
Viettel is currently operating in 10 countries in Asia, the Americas and Africa with the total population of over 260 million, of whom 75 million have become Viettel’s customers.
In 2014, the group grossed nearly 10 billion USD in revenue, 1.2 billion USD of which were from abroad.
Vietnam, South Africa seek telecom cooperation
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 to promote business cooperation.
At talks with the visiting Vietnamese minister, South African Minister of Communications Faith Muthambi said the visit marked a new landmark for the two countries to boost cooperation in information and communications.
At the meeting, the two ministers also informed of each other about the information and communications situation in each country, especially in managing the press, radio,
television and online news.
They also agreed to increase the exchange of delegations and establish dialogue channels to share state managerial experience in the information and communications sector, especially in digitalised television, press management, among other fields.
Minister Son recommended the two sides create favorable conditions for their telecom enterprises to invest and cooperate with each other.
The delegation also met with South Africa’s leading enterprises in telecom and related sectors such as Telkom, Rothschild, HSBC, DSC and Halo Technology.
Source: vietnamnet.vn