VietNamNet Bridge - In the competition among IPTV service providers, the big guy VNPT (Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group) has bigger advantages than others thanks to its existing strong infrastructure for fixed telephone line and ADSL. A report shows that Vietnam now has 1 million IPTV subscribers who are using the services of VNPT, Viettel, FPT and VTC. Technologically, IPTV can bring more utilities to users than cable TV, satellite or terrestrial digital TV. Meanwhile, IPTV services are cheaper than other types of pay-TV with the subscription fee of VND60,000-135,000 a month. There are about 60-100 channels serving clients together with many added value service packages. According to Nguyen Van Khoa, General Director of FPT Telecom, the biggest advantage of IPTV is the high interaction between service providers and clients and the capability of providing services to the individuals' orders. Users can store their loved programs for watching later at any time. Especially, … [Read more...] about Big ADSL service providers have advantages in IPTV race
Mobile phone advantages and disadvantages
Media ‘collision’ creates winners and losers, expert says
Broadcasters, policy makers, regulators, and experts in media sector have met in Hanoi on May 24-25 for the 8th Asia Media Summit, which was viewed as a significant platform to address challenges and to identify opportunities in the new age of digital economy. Geof Heydon, vice president of Digital Economy at Alcatel-Lucent in Australia. … [Read more...] about Media ‘collision’ creates winners and losers, expert says
Three students and the green car
VietNamNet Bridge - Seeing the drops of perspiration rolling down the pedicab driver's forehead, an idea flashed through the mind of the three students from the Da Nang University of Technology that it is necessary to force sunlight to serve the needs of human beings. As such, the clean car SC4 has been born. "At first, we intended to manufacture a 3-wheel pedicab run by solar energy which allows drivers to save 70 percent of their strength," Ta Ngoc Thien Binh, head of the SC4 car research team said. However, they later decided to manufacture a clean car, especially when they found out that the car prices in Vietnam are still incredibly high. Also according to Thien Binh, solar-energy run cars have the common disadvantage that they always need a long time to recharge their batteries, while the capability of running continuously and the operation scope remain limited. The group of three students Ta Ngoc Thien Binh, Huynh Kim Trang and Pham Nguyen Son then decided to design a … [Read more...] about Three students and the green car
And the winner is â¦
Viettel is likely in pole position to acquire the troubled EVN Telecom ahead of Hanoi Telecom. Buying a new SIM card and getting a new mobile phone number normally only costs a few dollars. But SIM cards with "beautiful" or "lucky" numbers, especially 6 and 8, are in great demand, as Vietnamese people believe such numbers are auspicious because they sound similar to the Vietnamese words for "much" and "prosperity". And unlike SIM cards with ordinary numbers, these ones can fetch a pretty penny. SIM cards with these lucky numbers were recently sold by EVN Telecom, the telecommunications arm of the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), at an asking price from VND500 million ($23,000) to VND1.7 billion ($81,000). Had EVN Telecom not been rumoured to be merging with the country's telecom giant, Viettel, its SIM cards would not be anywhere near as valuable. Uncertain futureEVN Telecom being sold or merged has long been inevitable because the government instructed its parent company, EVN, to … [Read more...] about And the winner is â¦
Mobile phone televisionization tendency growing in Vietnam
VietNamNet Bridge ' No need to have TV set or laptop; one just needs a smart phone to watch TV everywhere and every time. Using smart phones with 3G connection to watch TV has become prevalent, since Mobile Internet has been upgraded to the record speed of 21 Mbps. The 3G mobile TV wave … [Read more...] about Mobile phone televisionization tendency growing in Vietnam