Vietnamese Operator Wants to Switch from CDMA to GSM

Vietnam's HT Mobile is reported to have requested permission from the  Ministry of Information and Communications for permission to migrate its network from CDMA to the GSM standard. Citing an  unnamed source, local newspaper, VietNamNet Bridge said that government officials met last week to discuss the request from the mobile operator.

HT Mobile was established in 2003 as a CDMA2000 joint venture between Hutchison Telecom and Hanoi Telecom.

According to figures from the Mobile World, HT Mobile launched its services early last year but had only secured around 185,000 customers by the end of September. The country has 34 million phone subscribers, of which nearly 28 million are connected to other operator GSM networks, and remainder are on CDMA networks, S-Fone (3.7 million) and VP Telecom (2.5 million)

On the web: VietNamNet Bridge - Mobile World

Posted to the site on 10th January 2008