Hanoi (VNA) – VinhPhuc’s information and communications sector has been striving to developtelecom infrastructure and improve service quality in the province over recentyears, which in turn has had positive effects on the growth of all othersectors.

When Vinh Phucwas re-established, its telecom infrastructure was underdeveloped with onlybasic postal services provided.

The sector hasmade all-out efforts to modernise infrastructure, foster use of informationtechnology and improve quality of human resources, thanks to which the sectorhas achieved considerable development.

It has nowsatisfied demand of local organisations and people and kept up with moderntrends in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0).

Vinh Phuc isnow home to 11 enterprises providing postal services with anetwork of 169 post offices in total across the province. They all togethergenerated more than 200 billion VND (8.6 million USD) in average annually with anaverage growth of over 20 percent per annum between 2016 – 2019, andcontributed about 20 billion VND to the State budget.

Now all of theInternet subscribers usedbroadband, including over 95percent using FTTH OpticalFiber Cable.

Last year, thenumber of Internet subscribers reached 165,000 while there were about 85,000 post-paid subscribers, anincrease of 75 percent and 21 percent, respectively, from 2016.

Allgovernmental departments and agencies at district level and above have a local area network (LAN), Internetaccess using fiber-optic cable and are connected with the special-use datatransmission network. All civil servants at the district and provincial levels and about 80 percentof communal level officialshave been provided with computers to help them improve their performance.

Provincial departmentsand agencies have now delivered a total of 89 level-3 and -4 public services online. All one-doorunits at district and communal departments, agencies and People’s Committeesuse one single software system to enable smooth coordination among theseorganisations.

The province’semail system has created 7,921 accounts for all departments, agencies and officials atlevels, granted 745 government digital certificates and instructed them how touse a software designated for document management and operation.

Media and publishing activities are developing, contributing to the popularisation of the Party and State’s policiesand education of local history and traditional culture for people.

During the 2019 – 2020 period, Vinh Phuc province has granted about 430 publishing licences to the release of around 4 million copies ofpublications, as well as 170 permits for importation of non-commercial ones.

The province’sinformation and telecommunication sector has been urged to continue expandingand modernising infrastructure, diversifying services, improving quality ofpress publications and becoming a contributor to the local socio-economicdevelopment.

Military-run ViettelVinh Phuc, a leading telecom provider in the northern province, has worked toimprove quality of local telecom, information and technology (IT), and postalservices.

It has putforth a specific infrastructure development strategy covering the entireprovince, with nearly 500 4G base stations and more than 400 3G stations, alongwith 3,500 outlets and 200 employees.

The companyhas contributed significantly to providing information on socio-economic development for the public, especially news regardingCOVID-19, removing the development gap between urban and rural areas.

Given thepandemic, Viettel Vinh Phuc has offered free services to frontline workers inthe fight against COVID-19 whiledoubling its broadband speed in order to facilitate online learning andworking.

Despite theimpact of the COVID-19 pandemic,the company earned more than 490 billion VND (20.9 million USD) in revenue inthe first half of this year, up 1.4 percent year-on-year./.