Wireless communications centre to open in HCM City

Hanoi (VNA) - A wireless communications development centre is to be built in Ho Chi Minh City under a 54 million EUR contract recently signed by the British company Harvey Nash and the French telecoms firm Alcatel Lucent.

According to Harvey Nash, the centre, which will be connected with Alcatel's
software research and development centre in Germany centre in Germany ,
will provide wireless telecom solutions that meet international standards.
It is expected to create more than 200 jobs.

Harvey Nash's Global Managing Director Paul Smith said the company's
decision to establish such a centre was based on the intellectual competence
of the young generation of Vietnamese in the IT and telecoms sectors.

He also said he believed that the project would help promote Vietnam
as a centre for advanced software research and development.

Harvey Nash has been operating in Vietnam since 2000 and has built up
a list of blue-chip clients, including Honda, Vielife, Reliance Globalcom,
The Discovery Channel and most recently, Prudential.-Enditem