Vietnam awaits 2022 to surge ahead with mobile broadband
Even with COVID-19 pandemic-related mobility restrictions in place, Vietnam's economy has continued to outperform the rest of the region in 2020 and 2021. Nevertheless, the telecom sector essentially spent most of this period in a holding pattern, focusing on maintaining service throughout the crisis while preparing for some major changes to come in the mobile market in 2022.Both fixed-line telephony and mobile have experienced small drops in subscriber numbers since the start of the pandemic, but the similarities between the two markets end there. Fixed-line teledensity continued its downwards trajectory towards virtual oblivion, with just 3% penetration (around 3 million subscribers) at the start of 2021. The mobile market has lost about the same number of subscribers since the end of 2019, but has been sitting on much higher penetration levels around 130% for many years. Growth is expected to kick in again in 2022 following the anticipated launch of commercial 5G mobile services along with a range of government-led schemes to move consumers completely off 2G and 3G.
One example is the planned redistribution of GSM/3G bandwidth to LTE. In addition to propelling Vietnam into having one of the most advanced mobile markets in the world, this should also spur on the mobile broadband segment. With a penetration level of just over 70%, mobile broadband has considerable room to grow. Increasing economic prosperity coupled with the latest smartphone technology and networks should see mobile broadband underwriting the country's telecommunications sector for at least the next few years.
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Table of Contents
- Key statistics
- Regional Asia market comparison
- Market characteristics
- Market Leaders
- Market Challengers
- Market Emergents
- TMI vs GDP
- Mobile and mobile broadband penetration
- Fixed versus mobile broadband penetration
- Country overview
- COVID-19 and its impact on the telecom sector
- Economic considerations and responses
- Subscribers
- Infrastructure
- Telecommunications market
- Regulatory environment
- Regulatory authorities
- Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC)
- Vietnam Telecommunications Authority (VNTA)
- Mobile network developments
- Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
- Mobile market
- Mobile infrastructure
- 5G
- 4G / LTE
- 3G
- GSM
- NB-IoT
- Mobile broadband
- Major mobile operators
- Viettel
- MobiFone
- VNPT-Vinaphone
- Vietnamobile
- GMobile
- Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
- Fixed-line broadband market
- Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
- Wi-Fi
- Fixed network market
- Vietnam Post & Telecommunications (VNPT)
- Viettel
- FPT Telecom
- GTel
- Telecommunications infrastructure
- Domestic infrastructure
- International infrastructure
- Submarine cables
- Satellite networks
- Data centres
- Digital economy
- e-Government
- e-Health
- e-Education
- Smart Meters
- Smart Cities
- Technology parks/IT focus areas
- Appendix - Historic data
- Glossary of abbreviations
- Related reports
List of Tables
List of Charts
List of Exhibits
Companies Mentioned
- Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Corporation (VNPT)
- Viettel
- Vinaphone
- Mobifone
- Vietnamobile
- GTel
- GMobile
- FPT Telecom
- Itelecom
- Reddi.
