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NTT DoCoMo says company ‘very’ interested in Vietnam
NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan’s largest wireless carrier, has announced Vietnam plays an important role in its overseas expansion plans.
“We’re very interested in Vietnam.” Toshinari Kunieda, senior vice-president of Global Business at NTT DoCoMo Inc., said in a Bloomberg Television interview late last week in Singapore.
“We would like to partner with the wideband CDMA licensee in Vietnam.”
The Japanese mobile operator established an office in Hanoi last September to explore business opportunities in the country, currently Southeast Asia’s fastest growing economy.
DoCoMo has used the Hanoi office to strengthen relationships with government officials and corporate executives in the Vietnamese market.
The office also oversees operations in Laos and Cambodia.
This is the company’s fourth overseas office, joining existing facilities in Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore.
Vietnam, with a growing population of 85 million people and its economy expanding about 8 percent a year, saw the number of mobile phone users soar about 80 percent last year to 35.2 million, industry figures show.
Foreign companies like Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Co., Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. and Russia’s No. 2 mobile phone operator Vimpelcom have sought investment in Vietnam.
With over 53 million subscribers as of March this year, DoCoMo accounts for more than half of Japan’s mobile phone market and has one of the largest subscriber bases of any mobile phone company in the world.
Thanhnien
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