Vietnam posts a subscriber base of 89.5 Mn at April’09-end

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vietnam has reported 89.5 million subscribers at the April-end 2009, reached a ratio of 105 phones per 100 people, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications. In 2008, the Viet Nam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) lead the market with in terms of revenue from postal, telecom and internet services, earning VND45.29 trillion (US$2.66 billion), and paid a tax of VND6.81 trillion ($400 million). Viettel bagged second position with VND33 trillion ($1.94 billion) of turnover, tax payment of VND4.89 trillion ($287.8 million), followed by EVN Telecom with VND3.7 trillion ($217.6 million) of revenue and VND160 billion ($9.4 million) of tax payment.