Viettel stated it has put in greater than 6,500 base stations to supply 5G companies to all 63 localities in Vietnam
Vietnamese telco Viettel Navy Trade and Telecoms Group (Viettel) launched what it claims to be Vietnam’s first business 5G service.
Viettel stated it has put in over 6,500 base stations to supply 5G companies to all 63 localities in Vietnam, focusing specifically on tourism websites, seaports, airports, industrial parks, hospitals and colleges.
The telco famous that the brand new 5G service can provide connection speeds of as much as 1 Gbps, with practically zero ping. Viettel is deploying the 5G service utilizing each Standalone (SA) and Non-Standalone (NSA) architectures.
For particular person clients, the service supplier is providing 11 pay as you go and eight postpaid packages.
For enterprise clients, Viettel stated its new 5G community will present a complete of 130 use case choices for industrial manufacturing, good metropolis, logistics-transport, agriculture, healthcare, schooling and vitality sectors, built-in with cloud, synthetic intelligence (AI) and Web of Issues (IoT) applied sciences.
Based in 2004, Viettel had initially launched its 3G providing in 2010 and 4G service in 2017.
Rival operators VinaPhone and MobiFone have additionally introduced their 5G plans not too long ago. VinaPhone began providing trial use of 5G companies in sure areas whereas MobiFone goals to start trial use of 5G expertise throughout October.
The Ministry of Info and Communications had beforehand highlighted that home operators have been testing 5G companies for a number of years and could be prepared to supply business companies in 2024.
Earlier this month, Viettel has awarded nearly all of its nationwide 5G radio entry community (RAN) deployment to Swedish vendor Ericsson.
Ericsson stated its 5G services can be deployed throughout nearly all of provinces in Vietnam below the brand new contract.
Ericsson’s 5G deployment will embody the capital Hanoi and the north and central components of Vietnam when full. The prolonged partnership will even embody the modernization of Viettel’s 4G community throughout the identical geographical areas.
Each corporations have additionally signed a separate deal below which they may collaborate in direction of growing progressive 5G use circumstances in addition to creating a sturdy developer ecosystem in Vietnam.
Ericsson and Viettel will concentrate on key areas similar to 5G community slicing to supply differentiated connectivity, developer enablement by way of community APIs and information change on rising applied sciences.
Finnish vendor Nokia not too long ago introduced that it has signed a brand new business take care of Viettel Group to deploy 5G gear throughout Vietnam.
The 5G mission will cowl 22 provinces throughout the nation and help Viettel’s technique of advancing 5G infrastructure and digital transformation, Nokia stated.
The contract stipulates that Nokia will provide gear from its 5G AirScale portfolio for the primary time in Vietnam. This contains Nokia’s next-generation AirScale baseband options, Large MIMO radios, and distant radio head merchandise.
In August, Viettel stated it has efficiently examined a 5G Standalone (5G SA) community, changing into the primary home operator in Vietnam to take action after receiving a 5G frequency license from the Ministry of Info and Communications.
