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Viettel eyes global status by 2020
The military-run telecommunications group Viettel aims to become one of the world’s top 10 telecom companies by 2020 with a presence in 30-35 countries, the firm’s executives told Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at a working session on March 11.
PM Nguyen Tan Dung visits some Viettel's telecom equipment and electronic device research institutes and software companies
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Last year, it posted a pre-tax profit of 42 trillion VND (2 billion USD), an annual rise of 15 percent and representing 23 percent of the profit made by firms owned by the State.
Its tax payments exceeded 15 trillion VND (714.28 million USD), climbing 10 percent from the previous year and boosting Viettel to be the largest tax contributor in Vietnam.
The group is now employing roughly 90,000 people, including 75,000 in Vietnam and 15,000 abroad.
It has thus far invested in nine countries, namely Laos, Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Haiti, Peru, Mozambique, Cameroon, Tanzania, and Burundi. Viettel’s overseas revenue grew 25 percent to 1.2 billion USD in 2014 with a pre-tax profit of 156 million USD, up 32 percent.
The firm owns three telecom equipment and electronic device research institutes, two software companies, and two factories.
At the working session, Viettel executives highlighted their resolve to see surges of 20 percent in revenue and 15 percent in profit this year.
In addition to telecommunications and overseas investments, it is developing high-tech device research and production activities, the firm’s leaders said.
Speaking highly of the accomplishments, PM Nguyen Tan Dung asked Viettel to maintain its impressive progress and step up science-technology research and application to elevate the company to a leading group in the region.
He also pledged optimal conditions for the company to develop and realise its assigned targets.
