Viettel boasts over 150,000 mobile phone subscribers abroad

Hanoi (VNA) - The military-run telecom service provider, Viettel, on Jan. 13 said it has so far attracted over 150,000 mobile phone subscribers in Cambodia and Laos.

The company registered more than 100,000 mobile phone subscribers in Cambodia
and 50,000 others in Laos , after only two months entering these two
neighbouring markets.

It has also completed procedures for opening its representative offices in
Myanmar , and plans to invest in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ,
Cuba and Venezuela .

Viettel, which made debut in 2004, now is leading Vietnam with some 25 million
subscribers. It provides mobile phone, fixed line telephone, wireless fixed
telephone and internet services.

It was ranked 83rd among the 100 biggest telecom companies in the world with a
total brand value of 536 million USD, according to Informa PLC, a world leading
statistics provider.

Meanwhile, Wireless Intelligence, a global database of mobile market information,
also ranked the company the 41st biggest telco in terms of the number of
subscribers among 650 telecom companies worldwide.-Enditem