Viettel joint venture launches services in Laos
VGP - Star Telecom, a joint venture between the Military Telecom Corporation (Viettel) and Lao Asia Telecom, on Monday officially put into operation its telecommunications network Unitel in Vientiane and 16 other localities of Laos.
Unitel, which has installed 8,000 km of optical fibers in
80% of districts in Laos, will pull the fibers to all the remaining districts by
the end of this year and complete the construction of a 10,000-km trans-Lao
optical fiber axis running from the northern province of Phongsali to the
southern province of Champasak using dense wavelength division multiplexing
(DWDM) technology.
Unitel
launching ceremony in Vientiane, Laos, October 19, 2009
Unitel currently has 25 shops, 150 agents and 5,000 sales
outlets across
Starting operation in April 2008, Unitel has become
In February, Viettel launched its mobile phone network
Metfone in