Vietnam’s Viettel will launch its cable-TV service next month after successfully piloting the service in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and some other province. Viettel will initially price its basic cable package around VND 30,000 (USD 1.5) per month to attract customers from incumbent cable operators which currently charge around VND77,000-110,000 (USD 3.65 – 5.27) per month.
Viettel, a military-run telecom company, has approximately 200,000 km of cable nationwide and plans to cut the average cable coverage distance from its cable connecting points to local households from 350m down to 200m, and even to 100m by 2015.
Meanwhile, FPT Telecom hoped to launch its new cable-TV service before June. “We hope to launch our digital pay-TV services in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Can Tho, and some other provinces by the second quarter of this year,” said Nguyen Hoang Linh, FPT Telecom’s vice CEO. He said that analog pay-TV services will be made available to the remaining cities and provinces.
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