Viettel launches first 5G network in Vietnam and celebrates 20 years of mobile service business

This is an event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of officially operating mobile services and the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam People's Army. Thus, Viettel is the first enterprise to officially provide 5G services in Vietnam.

Attending the event were Senior Lieutenant General Pham Hoai Nam - Member of the Party Central Committee, Member of the Central Military Commission, Deputy Minister of National Defense; Comrade Pham Duc Long - Deputy Minister of Information and Communications; Comrade Ho Sy Hung - Vice Chairman of the State Capital Management Committee. On Viettel's side, there were Major General Tao Duc Thang - Chairman and General Director of the Group along with former leaders of the Group from different periods, Corporations, Companies and Viettel officers and employees representing departments, offices and centers.

Viettel 5G Network: Widest coverage, most modern technology, best quality

Officially launched just 6 months after receiving the license to use the 2,600 MHz frequency, Viettel's 5G network at the time of launch had more than 6,500 BTS stations, covering 100% of the capitals of 63/63 provinces, cities, industrial parks, tourist areas, seaports, airports, hospitals, and universities.

Viettel 5G network has a speed that can reach from 700Mbps-1Gb, 10 times faster than 4G and low latency of almost 0. Viettel 5G network deploys 5G simultaneously on both 5G NSA (non stand alone) and 5G SA (stand alone) architecture platforms.

The 5G NSA network was successfully deployed by Viettel in 2019, however, 5G SA is the real 5G network and is completely independent of the current 4G technology. Compared to the 5G NSA network, in addition to providing high-speed data transmission services, 5G SA also meets the requirement of super low latency, about 1ms, much better than the 5G NSA network and 20 times faster than the traditional 4G, helping to provide services that require instant response such as self-driving cars, remote surgery, remote control in smart factories, virtual reality classrooms, etc.

Viettel has developed open APIs (providing data, providing configuration capabilities and interacting with Viettel's 5G network) according to GSMA standards for the application development community in Vietnam and around the world. This helps application developers easily innovate on the Viettel 5G platform.

Viettel also announced 11 prepaid packages and 8 postpaid packages for individual customers. In particular, with 5G Viettel, each customer will have their own digital space, all 5G packages are provided with free Cloud storage and TV360 4K TV viewing service.

Customers who own 5G-enabled phones can use the service immediately without having to change SIM. To buy Viettel 5G packages, in addition to current channels, Viettel has launched a Shopping Portal athub.vietteltelecom.vnhelp customers easily choose the right package according to their individual needs.

For business customers, Viettel announced more than 130 user cases which are applications and solutions for organizations in the fields of Industrial Production, Smart City, Transportation and Logistics, Agriculture, Healthcare, Education, Energy. These solutions are tailored to each individual need, integrating cloud, AI, IoT technologies on the 5G platform with the ability to connect at extremely high density.

Speaking at the event, Major General Tao Duc Thang - Chairman and General Director of Viettel Military Industry and Telecommunications Group said that from being behind, approaching 2G, 3G, 4G technologies which had been popular in the world 8-13 years before, this is also the first time Vietnam can go hand in hand with the world in applying the latest technology of the 4.0 revolution, becoming one of the earliest countries to successfully test and Viettel is the first network operator to test 5G service in 63 provinces/cities. "A new future of mobile will start today", Chairman Tao Duc Thang emphasized.

Mr. Cao Anh Son - General Director of Viettel Telecom shared: If with 2G Viettel's aspiration is "each person owns a mobile phone"; 4G is "each person owns a smartphone", then 5G will aim for "each person owns a super-fast, super-connected smartphone", applying technology to solve major social problems, contributing to building a digital society, a smart era in Vietnam.

The message of Viettel's 5G network is "New Life" because Viettel believes that 5G will open up new services to serve people, connect people, connect all things and at the same time create tools/platforms for society to develop together.

20 years of Viettel Mobile - Connecting from the heart

Also on October 15, 2024, Viettel celebrated 20 years of officially operating mobile services. After 2 decades, Viettel has created 2 revolutions: popularizing mobile services, increasing mobile penetration from less than 5% in 2004 to over 100% after only 5 years and now 130%.

When the aspiration of every citizen having a mobile phone has become a reality, Viettel continues its mission of popularizing broadband internet services, moving towards the goal of every household owning a fiber optic line and every citizen owning a smartphone.

Over the past 20 years, Viettel Mobile has achieved many achievements:

* As the only mobile company in the world doing business in all three Indochinese countries, Viettel has taken the initiative to allow customers in all three countries to use mobile phones at the same rate as in the country (roaming like home). This policy helps reduce text message fees by 10 times, international call fees in the region by 14 times, and data fees by 140 times for hundreds of thousands of customers.

* Being the pioneer and only enterprise that covers the entire coastal waters of all Vietnamese islands, archipelagos, and platforms, becoming an indispensable friend of soldiers, fishermen, and millions of people living at sea;

* Successfully developed the world's largest real-time billing system vOCS with super high capacity and customization to design personalized packages to meet the needs of each user;

* Invested in mobile business in 10 countries in 3 continents: Asia, Africa and America, of which 7 markets are number 1. Viettel has also pioneered coverage in the deepest area of ​​the Amazon forest (Peru); eliminated the black zone for nearly 6,000 villages and residential areas in international markets, helping millions of indigenous people access telecommunications and information technology services.

Mr. Cao Anh Son emphasized: “Over the past twenty years, Viettel Telecom is proud to have contributed to the development of the telecommunications industry and the country to serve the people. In the next phase, we will continue to innovate, pioneer in creating a digital society, build platforms to shift from telecommunications to digital platforms, focusing on developing the digital economy, digital society and digital government. We will make relentless efforts towards the era of the Vietnamese nation's rise”./.