Hanoi - Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security has teamed up with a Russian mobile phone operator to set up the communist country's seventh mobile phone network, an official said Wednesday.
Russia's second largest mobile phone operator, Vimpelcom, signed an agreement to set up the network with the Global Telecommunications Corporation under the public security ministry on Tuesday in Hanoi, said the official.
The joint venture jumps into the market alongside the Ministry of National Defence, which currently owns the largest mobile network, Viettel, with more than 40 per cent market share.