4G license may be granted by the end of the third quarter

The testing process is expected to end next October, but the Telecommunications Department said it has asked network operators to report the results sooner.

According to information from the Ministry of Information and Communications,c management agencyIt is possible to proceed with licensing the deployment of 4G mobile network technology in late September or early October. This depends on the evaluation of the 4G testing process of the network operators.

The original plan was that the network operators would finish testing 4G on October 23. However, because businesses all wanted to be granted 4G licenses soon, the Telecommunications Department requested a report on the results earlier than the above deadline.

Licensing for commercial exploitation of 4G network may be carried out next September. Photo: AQ

4G is the 4th generation mobile data transmission technology, allowing maximum transmission speeds of up to 1-1.5 Gigabits per second, which is several hundred times faster than the current 3G network's speed of several tens of megabits.The first network to test 4G since the end of last year. Up to now,All three major networks, Viettel, VinaPhone, and MobiFone, have tested this technology.

Previously, the leader of the Ministry of Information and Communications said that it would allow network operators to operate commercially in 2017. However, many opinions later said that the commercial licensing should be carried out sooner.In the context of mobile data services in Vietnam growing strongly in recent years in terms of number of subscribers, but not highly appreciated in terms of transmission speed.

According to VNE