Environment for Electronic Commerce

E-Commerce Department
Ministry of Trade
Vietnam
Environment for
Electronic Commerce
(Vietnam)
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ICT infrastructure
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Internet – History marks
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Before 1997: dial-up by early ISP: FPT, Netnam
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Decree 21/1997/ND-CP: legal basis for Internet
service provision
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December 1997: Vietnam officially connect to
Internet
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1 IXP: VNPT
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4 ISP: VNPT, FPT, SPT, Netnam
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2000, internet service provided nation-wide
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Dial-up through telephone line system of VNPT
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Internet – History marks

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Decree 55/2001/CP-ND on management of
Internet services. Change in perception
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Changing from “Manage then Open the service” to
“Mangement for development of Internet service”
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2002: Termination of monopoly in IXP
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5/2003: ADSL – the break through in Internet
services
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The booming of internet service (café, services...)
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Connecting forms: Wi-Fi, GPRS
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10/2003: Establishment of National Internet
CenterVNIX
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For 2005 statistics
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International bandwidth: 2,997 Gbps
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IXP (6), ISP (17), OSP (15), ICP
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Total subscribers: 2,3 mio (population: 80 mio)
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Internet users: 8,56 triệu
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Number of domain names .vn: 12.611 (80% .com.vn)
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Ratio of domain names / population still low: 0,00017
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Number of IP provided: 607.744
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Increase but still low compared to the other countries
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Number of business with website: 17.500
Development of Internet services
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Characteristics
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Development of value-addes services: VoIP, chat,
forum, online games
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Diversification of users, longer time of using
internet
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Only 5/17 ISP actually operating in market
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Domestic contents development increase:
business, education, news...