Viettel plans network expansion to North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela

Friday, 6 February 2009
Viettel plans network expansion to North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela

Vietnamese military-owned telco Viettel has announced plans to expand
its network to North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela, according to reports in
local paper Thanh Nien Daily. Tran Phuoc Minh, deputy director of
Viettel, said the company is hoping to hold negotiations with the three
countries in order to gain a foothold in their still relatively
underdeveloped wireless markets. The cellco expanded its network to
Cambodia last year, where it signed up 100,000 wireless subscribers
after two months of pilot operations, as well as Laos, where it hopes to
attract 50,000 subscribers this year. According to TeleGeography's
GlobalComms database, Viettel had a subscriber base of 28 million at
end-2008.

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