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| .vn Vietnam |
Overview Vietnam is a developing country and a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The country has a surface area of 331,000 square kilometres and is located in the tropics. It has a total population of nearly 80 million, of which 75 percent are farmers living in rural areas. Vietnams GDP in 2000 was approximately US$32 billion. Beginning in 1986, it has implemented reform policies to shift from a centralised economy to a market economy with socialist orientation. The Vietnamese economy is structured in terms of GDP in 2000 at current prices, as follows (Vietnam Statistic Yearbook 2000): By economic sector:
Service: 39.1 percent By
ownership: Telecommunications and Internet access In recent years, the telecommunications and Internet sectors of Vietnam have taken encouraging steps forward. As of June 2002, the total bandwidth of international Internet connection was 106 Mbps, comprising connections to Hong Kong at 56 Mbps, the USA at 14 Mbps, and Singapore at 32 Mbps. Also
as of June 2002, the number of Internet subscribers totalled more than 170,000,
accounting for 0.22 percent of the population. However, the actual number of people
using Internet services is much higher, accounting for 1.3 percent of the total
population. The
total number of telephone subscribers connected since the beginning of 2002 is
around 230,000, raising the total number of telephone subscribers to five million.
This translates to 6.25 telephones per 100 inhabitants. Fixed-line telephones
account for 69 percent. The Directorate General of Post and Telecom-munications (DGPT) is gradually reducing the charges for Internet and telecommunications services. It aims to lower local rates to match the average charges of countries in the region by 2003 in order to promote the Internet and telecommunications sectors, which in turn will contribute to the socioeconomic development of the country. Telecommunications and Internet infrastructure Although Vietnam already has a modern telecom-munications network that can provide various advanced telecommunications services, the reach of the network is still relatively limited. Internet access speed is slow, occasionally experiencing congestion, which in turn affects the rate of Internet penetration. During the first six months of 2002, the number of Internet subscribers increased to 10,000, meeting only 6 percent of the plan for its popularisation. Adding the number of people accessing via Internet cards, the total number of new subscribers reached 35,000. The Internet access charge has been lowered to an affordable level (according to the charge-lowering roadmap of DGPT), but the growth rate of Internet subscribers did not meet the set targets owing to the limited content of Vietnamese websites. Users face difficulties searching for information they need in Vietnamese on the Web. Only a small number of them can use English to access foreign websites. Most of the users turn to the Internet for e-mail, leisure and chatting online.. . . . . the complete text of this chapter is available for purchase and immediate download as a PDF file, please click here for more information. |
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