In the past, in spite of its significant development, telecommunications industry also exposes weaknesses, including: high price but poor service quality, asynchronous and unbalanced net
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1 Necessity of the thesis
Telecommunications industry plays a definitely important role in
socio-economic development of Vietnam It is considered as a
pivotal technical-economic industry, and also be able to advance
quickly by using shortcut in industrialization and modernization
process of the country
After more than six years of Vietnam WTO accession, the
telecommunications industry of Vietnam is holding attraction for
foreign investors, and Vietnamese enterprises operating in
telecommunications industry also make investment overseas In the
past, in spite of its significant development, telecommunications
industry also exposes weaknesses, including: high price but poor
service quality, asynchronous and unbalanced network infrastructure
between rural and urban area, decreasing average income per
subcriber, undiversified services, and unprofessional customer
services Telecommunications management system and policies have
not catched up with rapid development of the industry Especially
current competition of telecommunications industry is, in fact,
happening among State-owned enterprises operating in
telecommunications: Viettel, Vinaphone and Mobifone make up over
90% total number of subscribers, income and network infrastructure
Vietnamese telecomunications industry is said to be operating in
free-market; however, in fact it under government monopoly, private
industry’s participation is still insignificant
Current telecommunications market is no longer goal mine for
enterprises to easily exploit, but entering into satureated stage in term
of number of mobile subcriber Therefore, competitiveness of
Vietnam telecommunications industry has to face many significant
difficulties and challenges
It is completely necessary to find out a set of know-how
techniques which will help managers, policy makers providing
solutions for strengthening competitiveness of Vietnam
telecommunications industry and make it become a pivotal
technical-economic industry From such emergent demand, I select topic
“Improving the competitiveness of Vietnam's telecommunications
industry” for my thesis
2 Objectives
The thesis focuses on main objectives as follow:
- To systemize basic theories in association with competitiveness enhancement of the industry in general and
in particular for typical telecommunications industry In particular: To conduct researches about competition and competiveness at sectoral level, criteria for assessing competitiveness at sectoral level, criteria for reflecting competitiveness of telecommunications, factors influencing competitiveness of telecommunications industry
- To analyze and point out weaknesses, limits of previous researching results related to competitiveness of telecommunications industry in order to identify gaps, shortcomings, issues in term of Vietnam telecommunications industry that have not been addressed in previous researches
- To analyze, assess actual competitiveness of Vietnam telecommunications industry for the past time in order to define achievements, shortcomings, advantages and disadvantages of the industry To give answer for the question: How is competitiveness of Vietnam telecommunications industry at present?
- To propose opinions, orientation and solutions in order to strengthen competitiveness of Vietnam telecommunications
industry
3 Objects and scope of the research
3.1 Object
Object of the research is the competitiveness of telecommunications industry of Vietnam However, due to integral relationship of business and manufacturing process of Vietnam telecommunications and economic development, the thesis also includes various factors
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economy
3.2 Scope of the research
The research aims at telecommunications enterprises not 100%
owned by foreign enterprises which are operating in Vietnam
territory and Vietnamese telecommunications enterprises which are
making business in foreign markets, regardless of economic sectors
In telecommunications, the thesis mainly presents mobile
telecommunications, fixed telecommunication and internet,
broadband of telecommunications
Most of data from 1993 up to now are mainly used for the research
Because in this period, development and competition of Vietnam
telecommunications according to market mechanism start to be
shown, especially data in respect of telecommunications from 2006
up to now when this is the booming of Vietnam telecommunications
market, and of period of its definite competition In 2010, mobile
telecommunications starts to reach saturation
4 Scientific and practical significance of the thesis
* Its contribution in term of theory
- Clarifying definitions of the industry, competition,
competitiveness and competitiveness of telecommunications
industry
- Providing set of criteria for presenting competitiveness of
telecommunications industry
- Applying expanded diamond pattern (of Michael E.Porter và
John H.Dunning) in order to evaluate six factors making
impact on competitiveness of telecommunications industry
including strategy, structure and competition in
telecommunications industry; demand of
telecommunications market; foreign investment; conditions
for manufacture input; related industrial sectors and
supporting industrial sectors for telecommunications
industry; and Government
* Practical contributions, proposal obtained from research:
- The thesis provides lessons and experience to enhance competitiveness of telecommunications industry applied in countries with the world’s leading telecommunications development such as Taiwan, China, Turkey, Brazil and so
on
- From analysis of competitiveness of Vietnam telecommunications industry, the thesis draws outstanding results and shortcomings required to be solved in order to identify actual reasons to suggest solutions for competitiveness improvement of Vietnam telecommunications industry
- The thesis analyzes and points out opportunities and challenges for Vietnam telecommunications industry which plays very important role to adjust strategy and find out solutions for telecommunications industry development
- The thesis provides six groups of solutions for competitiveness enhancement of Vietnam
telecommunications industry
- The thesis provides solutions for improving competitiveness
of the industry
5 Structure of the thesis
In addition to introduction, conclusion, reference and appendix, the thesis is divided into four chapters
Chapter 1: General overview of scientific works related to the thesis Chapter 2: Rationale for competitiveness of telecommunications industry
Chapter 3: Actual situation of competitiveness of Vietnamese telecommunications industry
Chapter 4: Orientation and solutions for strengthening competitiveness for Vietnamese telecommunications industry
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WORKS RELATED TO THE THESIS
1.1 Research works closely related to the thesis
1.1.1 Research Works related to theoretics in respect of
the industry, competition, and competitiveness at sectoral level
- Theoretics in term of the industry: The work of Porter,
Institute of Statistical Science
- Theoretics of competition: relevant research works,
opinions, theory from online Vietnamese-language
encyclopedias, Syllabus of Marxist-Leninist political
economy (2004), OECD Forum (2000)
- Theoretics of competitiveness: online Vietnamese-language
encyclopedias, OECD (1996), The world economic forum
(2006)
- Theoretics of competitiveness at sectoral level: United
Nations (2001), Van Duren (1991)
1.1.2 Applying research works on competition,
competitiveness of telecommunications industry conducted by scholars and global organizations
- Criteria reflecting competitiveness in general: Customer
satisfaction ( Sharma & Fisher, 1997; Tracey, Vonderembse
& Lim, 1999), market share (Anderson & Soha, 1999; Lau,
2002), growth of market (Tracey, Vonderembse & Lim,
1999), sales figure (Anderson &Sohal, 1999; Li, 2000),
growth speed of sales figure (Lau, 2002; Sharma & Fisher,
1997) and labor productivity (Noble, 1997; Ross, 2002;
Sharma & Fisher, 1997)
- Applying targets, criteria for assessing telecommunications
industry of several international organizations: International
Telecommunication Union, Business Monitor International
competitiveness at sectoral level
Michael E.Porter, John H Dunning (1993), Mohammad Hosein Rezazadeh Mehrizi & Mohammad Pakneiat (2008), Yan Ling Yu
(2004) Through research works related to factors influencing
competitiveness of telecommunications industry, the thesis apply the
expanded diamond pattern (based on the pattern of Michael E.Porter)
with six key factors including strategy, structure and competition of telecommunications enterprises; conditions of manufacture input; demand of market; role of the government; related industrial sectors
and supporting industrial sectors for telecommunications industry
activities in telecommunications industry
- Manufacture and business activities of enterprises providing telecommunications services: PhD thesis related to the topic of
authors such as Le Ngoc Minh (2008), Phan Chu Minh (2002)
- Telecommunications industry and several industries related to
telecommunications industry: Tran ðang Khoa (2007), Hoang Thi
Hoan (2004); Report on policy research – VNCI, số 3: Research on competition of Vietnam telecommunications industry completed in June, 2005 Nguyen Huu Dung (2002), Vu Duc Dạm (1996); Report
on Viet Nam ICT Index
- Policies, regulations to telecommunications fields: Tran Van
Thinh, Ha Noi (2007), Tran Duc Lai (2004)
- Role of telecommunications industry to socio-economic development: Mai The Nhuong, Nguyen Xuan Vinh, Nguyen Ngo
Viet, Le Dac Quang, Nguyen Huong Lan (2000)
- Varying trend of telecommunications industry: Nguyen Ngo Viet
(1999), Nguyen Van Minh (2001)
telecommunications industry
Li & Xu (2004), Chao – Chung Kang (2009), Becky P.Y Loo (2004), C’esar Mattos & Paulo Coutinho (2005), Abeysinghe & Paul (2005), Necmiddin Bagdadioglu & Murat Cetinkaya (2010)
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documents relating to competitiveness of telecommunications
industry, it is easy to see that these researches have significantly
contributed into the formation of theoretical foundation for the
industry’s competitiveness, other affecting factors and criteria for
assessment, developing trends, lessons on reformation for
improvement of competitiveness in telecommunications of other
countries over the world, etc However, there has not been any
research conducted thoroughly and systematically on
competitiveness in Vietnam telecommunications, especially from
2006 up to present, after the integration of Vietnam into WTO
1.2 Thesis objectives
The thesis gives answer to 4 main researching questions as
follows:
What factors affect competitiveness of telecommunications industry?
What criteria are used to assess it? What is the current situation of
Vietnam telecommunications industry? What can be done to improve
the competitiveness of Vietnam telecommunications?
1.3 Research methods
The thesis uses methods of statistical analysis, comparison and
synthetization from statistics of telecommunications industry to
measure and evaluate its competitiveness
Besides, the thesis uses case study and observation
CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL BASES IN COMPETITIVE
BASE OF VIETNAM TELECOMMUNICATIONS
2.1 Concept of competitiveness and sector competitiveness
- Concept of competition: Competition means to compete, to seek
all ways, measures and means to survive, to define one’s advantages
beyond his/her competitor, other suppliers in pros, results, fame,
benefits, social status or other things that are desired by all parties
- Concept of competitiveness: competitiveness shall be understood as
an entity’s ability to control, make use of advantages and resourcesto have more effective and bigger result in comparison with the last period and with competitors
2.2 Application in researching competitiveness of Vietnam telecommunications
2.2.1 Concept of competitiveness of telecommunications industry
Competitiveness of Vietnam telecommunications industry: It means
the ability of changing structure, mechanism of internal telecommunications industry to establish and maintain stable development of the sector, improve service quality provided by sector corporates, aiming to be better and more competitive in accordance with the market mechanism Therefore, Vietnam telecommunications industry shall be able to attract capital investment, technology transferring, domestic and oversea human resources
2.2.2 Characteristics and services of telecommunications and the importance of improving competitiveness of Vietnam telecommunications industry
Telecommunications industry has 4 basic characteristics: Being a new and strongly developing industry; heavy capital investment, complicated infrastructure and vast network; Applying high and complicated science technologies, changing rapidly; Having products with short product life cycle; Having multidimensional connected services
* Main services of telecommunications industry:
This thesis focuses on studying further of three main basic and back-bone services of telecommunications industry, which are fixed telecommunications, mobile telecommunications and Internet
* Importance of improving competitiveness of Vietnam telecommunications industry: Vietnam telecommunications play
more and more important role in socio-economic development Being
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country, Vietnam telecommunications industry is becoming
saturated Attracting investment capital is a vital condition to
improve competitiveness of telecommunications industry
2.2.3 Determination of factors affecting telecommunications
industry’s competitiveness
The thesis uses open diamond model as determining base for factors
affecting the competitiveness of telecommunications industry
Figure 2.2 Diamond model applied for the project
2.2.4 Determination of criteria showing competitiveness of
telecommunications industry
Criteria showing competitiveness of telecommunications industry
include 5 groups: number of subscribers of telecommunications
industry, revenue, quality of rendered services to meet the demand of
customers, criteria on labor productivity and criteria on developing
Strategies, structures and domestic competitiveness of the Company
Production
conditions
Demand
Relating and supporting
nment
Foreign
investme
nt
potential of telecommunications industry (ICT-OI) Each of them shall have specific target for assessment
2.2.5 Lessons from other countries over the world in
improving competitiveness of telecommunications industry
Firstly, gradually reduce control and intervention of the Government
in telecommunications industry by boosting capitalization in
telecommunications corporates owned by the state Secondly,
enhance calling out and open to foreign investors participating in Vietnamese telecommunications industry Thirdly,
telecommunications policies should focus on regulating the market in
a free way
CHAPTER 3 CURRENT SITUATION OF COMPETITIVENESS OF VIETNAMESE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY 3.1 Milestones of Vietnam telecommunications industry’s
development
Vietnam telecommunications industry has been through 3 stages: Exclusive telecommunications period (Prior to 1996), Opening market period with competitive environment (1996 – 2006), World integration period (from 2006 up to present)
3.2 Analysis on current competitiveness of Vietnam
telecommunications capacity 3.2.1 Analyzing competitiveness of Vietnam
telecommunications industry in accordance with following criteria:
- Criteria on subscribers of telecommunications industry:
Through analysis in fixed and mobile services in telecommunications industry and internet, it is shown that in recent years, number of subscribers in internet, fixed and mobile telecommunications has rapidly increased However,
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controls and occupies the market Obviously, State-owned
telecom corporates has been controlling and taking the lead
in the game and in competitiveness of telecommunications
industry The competitiveness in telecommunications is
actually the competition among State-owned
telecommunications corporates Telecommunications
industry has not had competitiveness in market mechanism
due to small and weak private sectors
- Criteria on revenue of telecommunications industry: The
whole industry’s revenue has increased rapidly The revenue
of three State-owned corporates under Viettel and VNPT
corporations (Mobifone and Vinaphone) took control in the
market of Vietnam telecommunications in the last years
These three corporates take lead and control of the market in
both number of subscribers, revenue and profits The other
companies in the field are too small so that they have to
follow these three giants Revenue structure in
telecommunications services has shifted in a positive way
ARPU is low and tends to decrease
- Criteria on rendered services’ quality: The quality of
Vietnam telecommunications services is gradually improved
but not good enough, services rendering in the market are
poor and lack of creativity, and the number of unidentified
subscribers still account for a large percentage Those are
obstacles in enhancing competitiveness among products of
telecommunications industry
- Criteria on labor productivity: Labor productivity of
telecommunications industry in recent years continues to
increase quickly, some corporates with very high labor
productivity have emerged and become the leading ones,
such as: Mobifone and Viettel
- Criteria on developing potential of telecommunications
industry: In comparison with other countries in the region,
Vietnam’s opportunities are disadvantageous and low with
many remaining developing potentials in approaching and
developing information technology market in general and telecommunications in particular This shows that it is necessary to enhance competitiveness in information technology and telecommunications in the near future to shorten the gaps with other countries in the region and over the world
3.2.2 General assessment of competitiveness for Vietnamese Telecommunication industry during last time:
Based on analysis of the real current competitiveness of Vietnam Telecommunication, the thesis presents achievements and limitations
of Telecommunication’s competitiveness
(1) Advantages and Achievements:
- Attract many telecommunication enterprises and foreign
investors
With the emergence and increasing participation of foreign investors into the domestic telecommunications market, telecommunications industry will be modernized because many telecommunications giants in the world will stream into Vietnam with technology , financial resources, knowledge and broad experience to deploy telecommunications infrastructure which is one of essential point of Vietnam
- Telecommunications high growth rate
Although Vietnam is a poor country and under the process of development, Vietnam's telecommunications industry has witnessed
a great progress for just over 5 years; the telecommunications industry has had impressive growth with the explosion of mobile telecommunications and the Internet inwhich broadband also has a impressive breakthrough with the continuously increasing rate of broadband users
- Positive restructuring of income
The income of telecommunications service and the Internet increases, while income of fixed telephone service tend to fall; the proportion of mobile service revenue accounted for a large number, more than 90% This reflects the positive trend of the telecommunications market; although mobile phones and the Internet appeared after the
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due to their convenience, modern technology, and cheaper price
- Increasing labor productivity
Labor productivity of telecommunications industry in general and
enterprises in particular had high growth and achieved good results,
although it does not prevail that of other indutries
- Service quality improved step by step
The telecommunications industry has grown quickly, but the quality
of service does not accompany with that growth There are still low
call quality, slow connection, broken connection, and impossible
connection But recently, network providers have committed for
more invsetment together with the tight control of govermental
management agencies in the measurement of service quality, which
enhance the service quality of the telecommunications industry
- Diverse types of services and contents to meet higher
customers’ requirements
High growth rate, limited scale of the market, more and more
providers appearing are three motivating factors for network
providers to improve their competitiveness by reducing price,
improving quality, upgrading products with diverse content, image
and value added services (VAS) on mobile telecommunication
network and in the Internet to maintain current customers and attract
more new customers, then increase revenue and market share
(2) Disadvantages and limitations
- High growth without deep investment; saturated subscription
of mobile telecommunications
After a period of rapid development and explosion, from 2010
Vietnam mobile telecommunication began to be saturated with
number of mobile subscribers exceeding over the total population;
and mobile telecommunications revenue declined remarkably
- Average revenue and number of ARPU subscribers
decreasing
The decrease in ARPU means profit growth rate of the
telecommunications enterprises declines and is in difficulty while
these enterprises still need a huge amount of money to maintain and
expand networks, and re-invest This clearly indicates these
enterprises must increase ARPU, or they will face many difficulties, even losses and bankruptcy in the future if they keep the race of subscription and telecommunication market share
- Negative competition, promotion and discount race, garbage
SIM
The inevitable consequence of the rat race of 7 telecommunications providers, in the context of developing economic and in the market
of only 87 million people, in which 70% of them is in agriculture area, is the breakthrough of unidentified-user SIM, unreal suscribers and the situation of the survival of the fittest and negative competition
- Low rate of broadband use
The proportion of people using Internet in Vietnam reached a high level, but the rate of broadband use in the number of internet users, despite rising continuously over the years, is still too low
- The internal competition among state-owned telecommunications enterprises
The nature of competition in telecommunications industry is the internal competition among state-owned telecommunications enterprises such as Viettel, Mobifone và Vinaphone These account for more than 90% market share in terms of number of subscribers, revenue, networks infrastructure; private businesses account for a very small percentage of the market
3.3 Factors influencing competitiveness of Vietnam
Telecommunications Industry
Factors affecting competitiveness of Vietnam telecommunications Industry over the past few years:
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Telecommunications industry
- Lack of supporting industries, mainly foreign dependence
- Ivolved industries newly formed with low-scale, fragmented and underdeveloped
- Conditions of telecommunications manufacturing mainly depended on external sources
- Law system on telecommunicatio
ns being completed
- The trend of liberalization, open and reduce the domination of the state
- Slow privatization process, the state still controlls telecommunicatio
ns
- Unfavorable environment of telecommunicatio
n business.
- Drastic but negative competition
- Too many providers
- Not good quality
- State-owned enterprises dominate the market, private ones blocked
Strategy, structure and domestic competition
Manufact uring conditions
Demand conditions
Involved and supporting insdutries
The Govern ment
Foreign
investm
et
- Large demand, young and crowded population
- Lower income, less spending on telecommunication
- Mainly used simple service:
Listen, call
- Non-voice service potential
- Abundant but
low quality human
not meeting
requirements
- Lack of capital
for the
development of
telecommunicatio
ns infrastructure
- The popular
technology in the
world, quite good
capacity
- Rapid growth of
telecommunicatio
ns infrastructure,
low scale
- Many foreign enterprises
invest in small scale
- Under forms of joint
venture, purchasing shares,
not 100% foreign
- Domestic enterprises
begin to invest in other
countries, however, only in
small scale
3.4 Consolidation of advantages, disadvantages and
requirements to improve competitiveness capacity of Telecommunications
3.4.1 Advantages of telecommunications’ competitiveness
Telecommunications industry grows quickly with active restructuring
of service; telecommunications enterprises have established and well maintained customer system and market Vietnam's telecommunications industry has established and built a large network system The telecommunications industry is more competitive and is in the first step towards the free market mechanism, actively invest and develop in foreign countries to increase competitiveness and market expansion
3.4.2 Disdvantages of telecommunications’ competitiveness capacity
It has rapid but not sustainable growth, low broadband rate, ARPU decreased; human resources of telecommunications is both insufficient and unqualified; under-developed infrastructure especially broadband; lack of investment for telecommunication development by strategic and sustainable investors; State-owned telecommunications enterprises dominate the market, control and lead the market; supporting industries for inputs have not developed
3.4.3 Requirements to improve competitiveness capacity of Telecommunications
Firstly, continue to improve the quality of telecommunication services Secondly, promote competition in the telecommunications industry towards the trend of the market itself Thirdly, change from the competition in terms of quantity and revenue to deep competition
in terms of quality, profitablity and sustainablity Fourthly, increase the rate of using broadband throughout Vietnam, especially large cities and urban areas in Vietnam Fifthly, improve and enhance the rank of development level of Vietnam's telecommunication market
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IMPROVE COMPETITIVENESS OF VIETNAM
TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY
4.1 Opportunities and threats in improving competitiveness
of Vietnam telecommunications industry
4.1.1 Background macro environment to improve the
competitiveness of Vietnam's telecommunications industry
Some bases in the macro environment as a basis for determining
opportunities and threats in improving competitiveness of Vietnam
telecommunications industry: the commitment of
telecommunications Commitment Vietnam joining the WTO, the
orientation and development objectives of Vietnam
telecommunications industry by 2020 of the Government, trends of
technology development of the telecommunications industry in
coming time
4.1.2 Opportunities and threats in improving competitiveness of
Vietnam telecommunications industry
4.1.2.1 Opportunities in improving competitiveness of Vietnam
telecommunications industry
That Vietnam joins the WTO will promote investment attracting,
freedom of telecommunications business The trend of globalization,
international cooperation and integration is an opportunity to attract
FDI, transfer technology and cooperate in telecommunications The
government tends to promote equalization, liberalization and
integration of telecommunications industry Government has the
vision and determination to make Vietnam soon becoming strong in
information technology Mechanism and policy of
telecommunications such as: telecommunications law is on the
way to be completed in accordance with WTO commitments
Vietnam has young population and rapid urbanization speed,
attractive telecommunication market with high growth economy; the
demand of mobile telecommunications and the Internet, especially broadband internet is increasing New rural in Vietnam is developing
telecommunications industry
Joining WTO, the competition becomes cut-throat with foreign telecommunications enterprises which are very powerful in capital, technology and experiences in competition globally The world economy has experiences remarkble unstability and financial crisis Vietnamese macroeconomy is likely to go through turbulences, posing many risks and difficulties Average income per capital is low whereas most population reside in wide rural area Telecommunications technologies are subject to over-heated and complicated changes
4.2 Direction to improve competitiveness for Vietnamese
telecommunications industry
Firstly, in order to improve the competitiveness for the telecommunications industry, it is necessary to take advantages of opportunities, enhancing strengths, triumphing over weakness and overcoming challenges Secondly, telecommunications industry is the economic-technical sector of great importance, which should be preferentially invested, deserving to its significant role in the economic development of the country Thirdly, system of State’s documents, legislation and policies in relation to improvement of telecommunication competitivenss shall be suitable to international regulations and agreements by which Vietnam has abide Fourthly, raising telecommunications competitiveness shall be based on encouraging internal competition for better products, services and quality Fivethly, hastening liberalization and privatization of telecommunications market with specific route and steps Sixthly, keep on promoting internet wide spreading, introducing internet to rural areas, in which broadband internet takes the critical importance
4.3 Key solutions to improve competitivenss for Vietnamese
telecommunications industry
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policies in order to create a healthy competitive
environment in the telecommunications sector
Solution is to finalize policys towards telecommunications
liberalization in accordance with the WTO integration trend and
commitments Enhance equitizing domestic telecommunications
enterprises to raise competitiveness of the industry
4.3.2 Better human resources quality in telecommunications
industry
The State should provide budget for training forms of graduate,
post-graduate, vocational school in telecommunications and information
technology major Step up cooperation in education and training with
institutions in countries having a booming telecommunications and
technology Socialize training work of telecommunication workforce
with a varitey of training forms Diversify, renovate strongly in terms
of contents, curriculum, teaching method, textbook, lesson plan,
increasing time for practice and application in training insititutions in
telecommunications and information technology Improve
competency and qualification for the team of lecturers, teachers, and
experts teaching and training telecommunications
Schools, educational institutions training telecommunications human
resources shall make close connection between training in school
with practical experience at enterprises Enhance the staff of state
managers in telecommunications Strenthen international cooperation
to develop human resources for telecommunications
4.3.3 Continue to promote the improvement of infrastructure
planning telecommunication networks to 2020 and build a
strategy to develop the telecommunications sector to 2020
To promote the improvement of infrastructure planning
telecommunication networks, first of all need to focus on promoting
and developing a shared network infrastructure for the
telecommunications industry combined with state enterprises and
foreign investment in telecommunications infrastructure Encourage
attract investors to develop telecommunications infrastructure, high technology and broadband
Complete strategy to develop the telecommunications sector in 2020
by communications plan developed countries by 2020
4.3.4 Heighten development research and application of modern
science and technology in telecommunications to diversify telecommunication products and improve service quality
Further cooperation, technology transfer and development cooperation with countries all over the world which have been successfully launching broadband telecommunications
Enhance cooperation with researching institutions, universities and Vietnamese firms cooperating with foreign researching institutions, universties and enterprises in transfer of science and technology, especially hi-technology and environmentally friendly technology Keep on proving the role of commercial promotion in telecommunications of relevant minitries, industry
The Government should control better with more openess in recognizing patent, invention of Vietnam in technology, new technique in telecommunications Bring into play the role and better effectiveness of the State agencies in supporting and promoting transfer of modern telecommunication technology
of global value chains, promoting the development of industry support for the telecommunications industry
Apply modern technology to strongly develop production of telecommunication terminal devices Developing supportive industry for telecommunition shall focus on the industry of producing electronic and telecommunication devices, software and digital content for telecommunication, to diversify SIM services to be introduced to the market It is recommended that the State should give priority in funding, technology, location and such policies such
as taxation exemption or reduction for small and medium sized enterprises engaging in telecommunications supportive industries, especially hi-tech and environmentally friendly fields The State