China's biggest telecommunications equipment provider Huawei,
together with a Vietnamese firm, Friday granted equipment using
code division multiple access (CDMA) technology and phone fees
worth 100,000 U.S. dollars to Vietnam's flood-hit central Quang Nam
province.
Addressing at the granting ceremony in Quang Nam, Vietnamese
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Huu Hao said the
assistance of Huawei and the EVN Telecom, a subsidiary of the
Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), the country's biggest electricity
producer and sole distributor, will help boost the development of
Vietnam's rural areas.
Flooding has frequently hit Vietnam's central region, including
Quang Nam, since October, destroying fixed telephone networks and
disrupting communications of people in some areas.
EVN Telecom is Vietnam's biggest operator providing CDMA 450
network, which is suitable to provide telecommunications service in
rural, remote and coastal areas, because of its wide coverage and
low network installation cost.
Huawei, accounting for 70 percent of the global market share in
CDMA 450 related equipments, has infiltrated in Vietnam since 2001.
Now, it is one of the three biggest telecommunications equipment
providers in Vietnam.
(Xinhua News Agency December 1, 2007)
