Vietnam’s information communication and technology (ICT) sector is predicted to “take off” in 2007, the first year of the country’s WTO membership, according to experts. Year 2007 will witness a strong growth of post and telecoms services, together with a high development rate in information technology (IT) sector, said Bui Thien Minh, Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT). Total broad-band Internet subscribers this year are likely to reach 1 million compared to 300,000 in 2006. Mobile phone service is expected to see a boom of 6 million new users, he added. IT hardware production will have positive changes as the area is becoming more attractive to foreign investors, Director of Post and Telematics Ministry’s IT Industry Department Nguyen Anh Tuan forecasts. The target of US $ 6-7 billion for 2010 is not too high since the Intel Vietnam chip assembly and testing plant, which will be operational in 2009, will be able to contribute 5 billion USD to the IT sector, he confirmed. Year 2007 also sees the development of the software market as well as software processing for export, which begins with contracts from American and Japanese companies, according to General Director of Microsoft… Read full this story
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