8,500 schools to access Internet by 2005
12:21' 27/07/2004 (GMT+7)


The programme has helped bring online 3,400 universities, colleges and high schools in Vietnam.

VietNamNet – The Vietnam Post and Telecommunications (VNPT) will help 8,500 secondary schools connect to the Internet by next year, said a VNPT official.

At a presentation ceremony, Motorola and VNPT awarded Internet connections to 11 secondary schools in two remote northern mountainous provinces of Vinh Phuc and Phu Tho, VNPT Deputy General Director Bui Thien Minh said that 8,500 secondary schools, which meet national standards, would be linked to the Internet in 2004-2005.

To accelerate the programme, Mr Minh has requested provincial post offices install Internet lines to the schools which have sufficient conditions for Internet connection from now to year’s end.

The ceremony marked the start of VNPT’s school Internet programme 2004 (Edunet school). At the ceremony, gifts worth US$50,000 including 110 CMS computers, 11 printers and 11 modems were presented to six secondary schools in Phu Tho Province and five others in Vinh Phuc Province. The schools are to be connected to the Internet from now to year’s end.

At the ceremony, Mike Ropicky, executive manager of Motorola’s global mobile solution group in Asia, praised Vietnam’s Edunet programme and expressed Motorola’s wishes to extend assistance. Since 1994, this group has provided US$650,000 for IT human resource training in the country.

The programme, launched last year, has helped bring online 3,400 universities, colleges and high schools in Vietnam.

Thanks Johannjs.

That's the way to go.

The government is not so bad afterall.

considering they also have the same ADSL broadband internet technology than in Paris, in the capital of France...

ADSL speed in Vietnam is (download/upload in Kbps - kilobits per second)

either 3,860/640 Kbps or 4,096/640 Kbps !!!

I have only 512/128 Kbps (I'm too far away from central PTT swichboard). For your curiosity, hourly measured speed watch for all France's ADSL providers on this page : http://www.grenouille.com

is it expensive to get online in Vietnam???
in China.. most people use broadband.. for homeuser the monthly fees is about
50 to 100 chinese dollars.... which is about 13 or less american dollars..
for people use in net cafe..it is about 2 or 3 dollars per hour... which is less than 25 cents US dollar

broadband is still limited in Vietnam.

However it's expanding like cell phones!

ic.. in China.. use phone to get online are more expensive than use broadband..

It costs about 3000d (it's cheaper if you're a regular ) or about 20cents USD to get online at an internet cafe in VN. The ones at home is about 300000d or $20 .. My cousins told me, I think that's for phoneline though, I kinda forget...

It costs 100 đ/minute or 4000 đ/hour to get online in all ADSL internet shops. These shops are connected directly with fiber optical cable to the always very near Post Office Bureau

(these Post Office Bureaus are everywhere, for the public phones, because the Vietnamese do not use normal telephone at home, most use only cellular GSM - the same European technology now also used in US and everywhere.)