PANO - Viettel Group has been ranked 29th out of a total of 461 telecoms around the world in terms of mobile subscriptions by GSMA Intelligence.

According to the international firm, Viettel has reached 90 million subscribers in Vietnam and its nine other international markets, Laos, Cambodia, Timor Leste, Cameroon, Haiti, Mozambique, Burundi, Peru, and Tanzania.

Metfone in Cambodia. Photo: roaming.com

Viettel's overseas subscriber base has increased 2.5 times in three years to 26 million.

The military-run company provides coverage of 95 percent of all its markets.

In the first half of this year, its international revenues were worth nearly 494 million USD, a year-on-year increase of 13 percent.

Now Viettel's mobile internet services are booming. Its turnover in the second half of the year is expected to nearly double year-on-year while data turnover has nearly doubled and 3G subscriptions have increased by 50 percent in the last six months.

The market is expected to grow very fast in the near future and Viettel plans to improve the quality of 3G services and expand 4G services in its international markets.

Translated by Chung Anh