Efforts to remove the wave depression

BTS station Pac Cung village, Thuong Nong commune has just been invested in construction.

Pac Cung is a poor village of Thuong Nong commune. The whole village has 45 households with 368 people. A few years ago, it was a village with no mobile signal. People had to face many difficulties when their mobile phones could not connect to the network and the internet could not be accessed; but now their lives have changed a lot.

Comrade Ban Van Tranh, Secretary of Pac Cung village Party Cell, shared: In the past, whenever the village or commune had an event, he had to go to each house to inform them. If there was an urgent matter, he had to climb the hill to be able to "catch the signal" to make a phone call. Now it's different, everyone in the village can use a mobile phone anywhere, so his work and everyone, every house in the village is much more convenient. That is thanks to the efforts of the commune, the province and the telecommunications companies in eliminating the "wave depression" area for the village.

According to the people of Pac Cung village, in August 2025, the telecommunications units in the area surveyed and installed the Mobile Transceiver Station (BTS). After 2 months of construction, the BTS station of Pac Cung village officially came into operation. Mr. Ban Van Vanh, Pac Cung village, Thuong Nong commune said: Since the 4G network was available, he bought a smartphone to make calls via Zalo, Facebook, and with the network, he also learned about farming and animal husbandry via phone to apply to the actual development of the family economy . Thanks to the broadband mobile waves, the trade and economic development of the people in the village is more convenient.

After many years of "no" mobile signal, now dozens of Mong ethnic households in Sung Lung village, Ta Lung commune have had the opportunity to use communication services, not only on 3G waves but also connecting via the internet with 4G technology. Viettel Tuyen Quang has deployed the construction and installation of a BTS mobile transmitting and receiving station, affirming the unit's efforts in covering telecommunications and mobile broadband in particularly difficult communes in the province.

Mr. Le Duy Huy, Head of Viettel Tuyen Quang Infrastructure Department, said: Since the beginning of the year, Viettel Tuyen Quang has installed 130 3G and 4G mobile stations to expand coverage, including more than 70 stations serving villages and hamlets with no mobile signal, contributing to eliminating the signal and overcoming the weak signal situation in villages and remote areas.

According to a survey by network operators, most of the "white signal" and "wave-trough" areas in the province are currently in difficult areas, without electricity, complex terrain, difficult traffic infrastructure conditions, low population density; the demand for telecommunications and internet services is not large, so revenue in these areas is very low. Meanwhile, the cost of investing in infrastructure to provide telecommunications and internet services is quite high, from about 500 million VND to 1 billion VND/BTS station; about 500 million VND/km of transmission line. Therefore, in investing in the network to eliminate "wave-trough" areas, enterprises need to review, evaluate the current situation and balance resources to ensure the implementation of local political tasks and production and business activities of enterprises.

Comrade Pham Ninh Thai, member of the Provincial Party Committee, Director of the Department of Science and Technology, said: Eliminating "no signal" and "no signal" areas for mobile phones and overcoming villages without fixed broadband internet access has been identified by the Provincial People's Committee as the number 1 priority task in developing infrastructure to serve digital transformation. Therefore, the Department has reviewed the specific list for each village; directed, coordinated, assigned tasks to telecommunications enterprises in the area, accompanied to remove difficulties and created the most favorable conditions in terms of policies and mechanisms to support enterprises in developing infrastructure. However, due to the mountainous terrain, up to now, the province still has 273 villages with no signal or no signal.

Article and photos: Quoc Viet

Source: https://baotuyenquang.com.vn/xa-hoi/202511/no-luc-xoa-vung-lom-song-48c0f57/