It
is easy to own a mobile phone that is made in Vietnam these days, as phones
with Vietnamese trademarks such as ABTel, Viettel, Hanel or FPT are available
in many shops in Hanoi.

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With a comparable quality and much cheaper prices than many
of the world’s well known mobile phone firms such as Nokia, Samsung, Siemens,
phones made in Vietnam
have proved their competitiveness and have kept a firm foothold in the domestic
market.

Doan Thanh Nhan from the Viettel Trade and Export-Import
Company, said that Q-Mobile, distributed by the An Binh Telecom Company (ABTel)
is the best seller in Vietnam
because of its chain of Viettel shops, which represent 15-20 percent of
Viettel’s total phone sales.

Q-Mobile occupies a 30 percent share of the domestic market
for phones costing between 600,000-2 million VND.

According to ABTel’s General Director Nguyen Quang Minh,
besides attempting to make Q-Mobile become the best seller by 2011, the company
also plans to export the product to Laos,
Cambodia, Myanmar and a
number of African countries.

After a one-year study, in June this year Viettel introduced
250,000 wireless home phones to the market. In addition, the business has also
succeeded in manufacturing a special type of mobile phone for off-shore
fishermen and patrol boats that is capable of covering a range of 120km,
compared to only 80km for ordinary mobile phones.

Joining the competition for phones made in Vietnam, from
2008, the Financing and Promoting Technology Group (FPT) has its smart phone
F99. While not making the breakthroughs that Q-Mobile has made, it has earned a
good reputation thanks to its standard price of 1.89 million VND per phone,
which is suitable to consumers’ incomes.

To improve the competitiveness of made-in-Vietnam phones,
the business community has suggested that the Government gives incentives in
income tax levies and the market.

Source: VNA