Lookatvietnam – Telephone service providers added 3.2 million new subscribers to their books during January, 60 percent higher than during the same period last year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported.

The total number of phone users at the end of 2008 was 79.4 million, which included 13 million landlines, a leap of 53 percent compared to the previous year, making Vietnam one of the fastest-growing nations in terms of telephone usage

This success can be attributed to the efforts made by service providers to expand their networks to include rural, mountainous and remote areas and to improve their service quality during the past year.

Internet use in Vietnam also grew significantly during 2008, with 6.7 million new internet subscribers over the course of the year, up 28.4 percent from the previous year’s figure.

Boasting 20.67 million internet users, Vietnam is now one of the top twenty countries in the world in terms of internet use.

VietNamNet/VNA