In the first half of 2010 Vietnam had an additional of 22.8 million phone subscribers, 12.2 percent up year on year, reported the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Of this number, there were 22.1 million mobile subscribers, an increase of 18.7 percent and 707,700 fixed phone subscribers, a fall of 58.7 percent in comparison with the corresponding period of 2009.

The number of new mobile users in the first half was 31-fold more than fixed phone users.

The total number of phone subscribers in Vietnam by the end of June 2010 reached 151 million, 48.5 percent over the same period of last year. Mobile subscribers accounted for over 80 percent.

The number of broadband Internet subscribers was estimated at 3.4 million by the end of June, up by 33.5 percent.

The total revenue from postal and telecom services in this period also grew by 33.7 percent year on year.

PV