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Viettel to move forward with Haiti investment despite earthquake-With COMMENTARY From Haitian-Truth Below Article

   February 12, 2010

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Emphasizing its commitment towards the disaster hit Haiti, Vietnam’s largest cellular network operator by subscribers, Viettel has announced to continue the planned investment amidst catastrophic damage due to earthquake. Viettel will invest USD60 million to supplement Teleco’s USD40 million investment in the project.

According to deputy general director of Viettel, Nguyen Manh Quan, earlier this year, the company inked a deal to partner Haitian incumbent fixed line operator Teleco in a project installing a 2,000km terrestrial fibre-optic cable network which would bring broadband internet access to remote parts of the island nation.

Just before the lethal earthquake struck the country, Viettel has been on the verge of completing a deal to acquire a majority stake in Haiti’s cash-strapped PSTN provider in January.

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COMMENT:HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG

VIETTEL is a cell phone company of moderate size, dwarfed by Haiti’s DIGICEL. It is not set up to run a landline-based system and is about as far away from Haiti as one can get. It is just as short a journey to fly east as it is to fly west.

VIETTEL offers no advantage to Haiti.

In fact VIETTEL does not have the technological base for landlines.

Is VIETTEL supposed to create a Preval controlled competitor for  Digicel and Haitel? Once VIETTEL is here will he create problesm for the existing companies, as he did at earlier times when he blocked access to property for new antenna systems?

The VIETTEL deal must be blocked.
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3 thoughts on “Viettel to move forward with Haiti investment despite earthquake-With COMMENTARY From Haitian-Truth Below Article”

  1. Vnpt and Viettel may be a greatest developed company in Vietnam 2010, thanks for your article.

  2. Just goes to show that people read what they want into an article. If this rationale succeeds Preval will be declared Presadent a Vie

    Viet Nam understands corruption.
    Preval is corruption.
    It will be a successful maraige

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