Viettel Global Investment Corporation and Bitel - a brand of Viettel Group in Peru - have just been awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Prime Minister for their outstanding achievements in implementing the policy of international economic integration and economic diplomacy . In addition, Viettel Global also received a Certificate of Merit from the Central Propaganda Department for implementing foreign information, contributing to promoting the country and people of Vietnam to the world.

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Viettel Cambodia received the Second Class Labor Medal from Vietnam. Photo: Thanh Long

“I have heard leaders of all levels of government in Laos, Cambodia, and Peru say thank you to Unitel, thank you to Metfone, thank you to Bitel, but in the end, they all thank Viettel,” General Phan Van Giang, Politburo member, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, and Minister of National Defense , emphasized at the ceremony to award the Second Class Labor Medal to Viettel Cambodia Company.

The year 2024 continues to mark the remarkable progress of Viettel's foreign telecommunications sector in the international arena with a total of 13 prestigious awards. Enterprises such as Unitel, Lumitel and Metfone have successfully entered the list of units honored at many prestigious awards, affirming Viettel Global's position in the telecommunications and information technology industry.

When investing in business, Viettel Global creates jobs for nearly 300 thousand local workers.

With a sustainable investment strategy, Viettel Global is not afraid of difficulties and hardships to build telecommunications infrastructure in remote and inaccessible areas and accompany governments of countries to implement national digital transformation projects, helping to shorten the digitalization gap between regions within a country and between countries within a continent.

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Photo caption: Unitel launches 5G network in Laos. Photo: Thanh Long

In addition, Viettel Global has persistently implemented social programs that have made a splash, such as the Free School Internet Project in all investing countries, the government videoconference project, school construction programs, scholarships, humanitarian sponsorship (cleft palate surgery, heart surgery, etc.) for poor children.

Up to now, Viettel has invested and organized business in 10 countries in 3 continents (Asia, Africa, America) with a customer base of approximately 270 million people (2.5 times larger than Vietnam). Since then, Viettel Global has become one of the 11 largest foreign telecommunications investment companies in the world in terms of the number of markets with investment capital of ≥ 49% and is in the top 25 telecommunications companies in the world in terms of the number of subscribers.

In particular, in recent years, Viettel Group, Viettel Global and its members have continuously attended the largest annual event of the year in the global mobile technology industry - the Mobile World Congress (MWC) - attracting nearly 200 countries and territories.

Jackie Chan