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Ericsson to take over HT Mobile (Vietnam)

  • November 17th, 2008
  • 1:03 pm

Ericsson plans to take over the Vietnamese operator HT Mobile once the operator shifts from CDMA to GSM technology. HT Mobile, a joint venture between Hanoi Telecom and Hutchison Telecommunication, had recieved a licence in March’08 to change from CDMA to GSM it was then that the Vietnamese operator had inked a deal with Ericsson to manage the network transformation, which is expected to be completed early in 2009.

   

HT Mobile soon to make a comeback as a GSM operator (Vietnam)

  • October 3rd, 2008
  • 11:40 am

HT Mobile, is on the verge of re-entering the Vietnamese mobile market. HT Mobile will launch it’s GSM services within coming few months. The operator had left the mobile market in 2007 as a CDMA operator and with goverment’s due permission it switched to the GSM network. The operator recieved the GSM licence in March 2008, and spent more than USD600 million on equipment from Ericsson and Huawei. By the start of October the company plans to have deployed 5,000 base stations.

   

HT Mobile officially confirms switch to GSM (Vietnam)

  • January 21st, 2008
  • 5:54 am

Vietnamese CDMA cellco HT Mobile has said that it has been granted permission by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) to migrate its network to the GSM platform. The company expects to retain use of its existing 800Mhz spectrum and reuse up to 80% of its old equipment. Director Trinh Minh Chau, quoted in VietnamNet Bridge VietNamNet Bridge that the change will not negatively affect HT Mobile subscribers and all customers would receive a free replacement GSM handset in due course.

   

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em (Vietnam)

  • January 10th, 2008
  • 2:27 pm

According to an anonymous source reported in VietNamNet Bridge, CDMA cellco HT Mobile has asked the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) for permission to switch its network from CDMA to GSM-based technology. The source said that officials met last week to consider HT Mobile’s application. Though the cellco, a joint venture between Hong Kong’s Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited (HTIL) and Hanoi Telecom, has not confirmed the report, it is known that in September 2007 it stopped investing in its existing infrastructure.

HT Mobile launched CDMA 850MHz services in January 2007 with the aim of attracting one million subscribers by the year end, but according to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms database it had only achieved 185,000 by the end of September, in a year in which as many as 14 million new mobile phone subscribers (according to local press estimates) were recorded in the country. Fellow Vietnamese CDMA operator S-Telecom added approximately 750,000 subscribers in the first nine months of 2007, its best period since launching in 2003, but it was the GSM cellcos Viettel, MobiFone and Vinaphone which garnered the vast majority of new users. GSM networks are favoured by Vietnamese mobile users over CDMA, despite the latter being a more recent innovation. One inhibiting factor of CDMA is the smaller range of handsets it offers in comparison with GSM, in a youth-dominated market preoccupied with being able to change phones easily and frequently.

   

Vietnamese mobile firms focus on rural areas

  • May 14th, 2007
  • 7:06 am

Mobile phone operators in Vietnam are targeting rural areas for new subscribers as urban demand cools, local newspaper Vietnam Investment Reviews reported Monday. Viettel Mobile and EVN Telecom, which have seen the number of subscribers in Hanoi capital and southern Ho Chi Minh City halve since 2006, are issuing special rural area charging policies. Viettel would consider a special charging framework for rural areas, which would be lower than in urban areas. The firm’s subscribers in areas outside Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City account for 70 percent of its total network of more than six million users.

Meanwhile, EVN Telecom plans to sign up one million new subscribers this year, raising its total subscribers to 2.5 million, of whom 60 percent come from rural areas, many of which are becoming developed. Other mobile phone operators such as MobiFone, VinaPhone, S-Fone and HT Mobile are still focusing on urban market due to their various kinds of services and residents’ higher living standards. Vietnam has eyed 55-60 telephones per 100 residents, and 35-40 percent of local people accessing to the Internet in 2010. The country, with a population of over 83 million, is expected to have 38 million phone subscribers and 6 million Internet ones by the end of this year, respectively up from 27.4 million and 4 million late last year.

   

 

HT Mobile launches nationwide mobile service

  • January 15th, 2007
  • 12:32 pm

Telegeography writes…Vietnam’s seventh cellular network, HT Mobile, has launched. Canadian vendor Nortel has built the CDMA2000 network, which will be operated under a 15-year business cooperation contract (BCC) between Hutchison Telecom and The Hanoi Telecom Joint Stock Company (Hanoi Telecom). The network offers 1xEV-DO capability in some metropolitan areas, and its operators are hoping to win a 20% share of the mobile market within three years. It expects to sign up 2.9 million subscribers by 2017.