Communications in Vietnam include the use of telephones, radio, television and Internet. A telephone handset A touch-tone telephone dial Telephone The telephone or phone (Greek: tele = far away and phone = voice) is a telecommunications device that transmits speech by means of electric signals. ...

Telephones

Vietnam is putting considerable effort into modernization and expansion of its telecommunication system, but its performance continues to lag behind that of its more modern neighbors.

Domestically, all provincial exchanges are digitalized and connected to Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City by fiber optic cable or microwave radio relay networks. Main lines have been substantially increased, and the use of mobile telephones is growing rapidly Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Ná»™i)  , estimated population 3,083,800 (2004), is the capital of Vietnam. ... Da Nang (occasionally Danang; in Vietnamese: Quốc Ngữ Đà Nẵng, Chữ Nôm 沱囊/沱曩, Chinese: 峴港) is a major port city in the South Central Coast of Vietnam, on the coast of the South China Sea. ... Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh  ) is the largest city in Vietnam and is located near the Mekong River delta. ... Fiber Optic strands An optical fiber in American English or fibre in British English is a transparent thin fiber for transmitting light. ... Microwaves are electromagnetic waves with wavelengths longer than those of terahertz (THz) wavelengths, but relatively short for radio waves. ...

As of 2004, there were 10,124,900 main lines in use, and 4.96 million mobile phones in use.

The international country code is 84. Two satellite earth stations are in use: Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region).

Mobile phone numbers in Vietnam are shared by many mobile operators, including MobiFone, VinaPhone, Viettel, S-Fone, E-mobile. S-Fone is the fourth largest mobile communication operator Vietnam that uses the CDMA technology. ...

Radio

• AM 65, FM 7, shortwave 29 (as of 1999)

Look up AM, A.M., Am, am, and a. ... The abbreviations FM, Fm, and fm may refer to: Electrical engineering Frequency modulation (FM) and its most common applications: FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers Science Femtometre (fm), an SI measure of length... A solid-state, analog shortwave receiver Shortwave radio operates between the frequencies of 2,310 kHz and 30 MHz (30,000 kHz) [1] and came to be referred to as such in the early days of radio because the wavelengths associated with this frequency range were shorter than those commonly...

Television

Main article: Vietnam Television

• Broadcast stations: six (plus 61 provincial TV stations) (as of 2006)

Vietnamese television is television found predominantly in Vietnam. ...

Internet

Since 1997 Vietnam has been connected by two gateways: one in Hanoi which connects with Hong Kong and Australia, and the other in Ho Chi Minh City, which connects with the United States by Sprint. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Internet usage remains low in comparison with that of other Asian nations, yet connectivity has increased rapidly over the past few years, thanks to an initiative by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.

There are five ISPs operating: Vietnam Data Communication Company (VDC), Corporation for Finance and Promoting Technology (FPT), Netnam Company, Saigon Post and Telecommunications Services Corporation (Saigon Postel Corporation, SPT) and Viettel Company.

• Country code: .vn
• Internet hosts: 3,611 (2005)
• Internet domains: 18,530 (June 2006)
• Internet users: 12.91 million (June 2006)
• ADSL subscribers: 227,000 (Jan 2006)

.vn is the Internet country code top-level domain ( ccTLD) for Vietnam. ...

See also

• Media of Vietnam
• Vietnam Television

The media of Vietnam are tightly regulated by the government, which views the media as the voice of the party and of the masses and sees its main function as being to propagate the partys lines and policies. First and foremost, the media are a tool for government information... Vietnamese television is television found predominantly in Vietnam. ...

External links

• Việt Nam Cultural Profile - More information about broadcasting and Internet in Việt Nam
• The OpenNet Initiative's Internet Filtering Study of Vietnam.

Resources

• Statistics

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