Viettel's Smart City Model Wins 2021 World Communication Awards

The World Communication Awards 2021 organizing committee announced on October 26 that Viettel MilitaryIndustry and Telecoms Group (Viettel) smart city model is the most efficient and innovative.

World Communications Awards sail trophy to Viettel for winning 'Smart city model'. Photo: WCA

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Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group was recognized at the event for its smart city model, which outperformed significant competitors such as China Telecom Global, KT Corporation, and ZARIOT in the same category and at the same time. was listed alongside numerous "major names" in the world of technology and telecommunications, including Orange, Swisscom, Airtel, Ericsson, PCCW Global, and others...

Viettel is the only Vietnamese enterprise in the list of nominations and winners at WCA 2021. Photo: WCA

Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel Telecom) is a Military-run telecommunications company, established on October 15, 2000.

Viettel provides telecommunications and internet products and services. Their services also include value-added services on the internet and mobile phones; Messaging, data, entertainment information services on mobile phone networks, etc.

The Smart Cities Award is a category dedicated to finding effective and innovative solutions that benefit both people and businesses. The approach attempts to improve people's quality of life while also increasing the city government's operational efficiency.

The award is based on five criteria: the solution's application scope; its capacity to meet people's requirements or improve people's lives; its completeness in comparison to existing market solutions; the advantages the solution delivers to people; and the role of organizations and enterprises in developing a smart city.

Smart City Operations Monitoring Center (IOC) in Hue. Photo: Tuoitre

Viettel's Smart City model is a comprehensive solution with 14 component centers. Viettel can tailor according to the needs, characteristics, current situation and culture of each province/city, helping to use local resources in the most optimal way, providing accurate and appropriate analysis, thereby improving competitiveness and increasing people's satisfaction.

Previously, the Center was deployed in Hue and won the Telecom Asia Awards 2019 in the category of Asia's most innovative smart city project.

Viettel Chairman Le Dang Dung announced the new brand identity of Viettel. Photo: VNEconomy

Viettel Global Investment JSC (Viettel Global) handles all the countries' foreign investments. Viettel has successfully developed telecommunication services in three continents, Asia, Africa and the Americas. It made a profit from its foreign operations for the first time in 2012, mainly based on profits from Cambodia and Laos and recorded a $1.2 billion revenue from foreign operations in 2014.

The company became the first Vietnamese company to provide as one of the official telecommunication services for the Peru national football team during the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the first Vietnamese company to achieve this feat.

Viettel enterprise has the largest customer base in Vietnam with more than 70 million customers.

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Total Telecom organizes the World Communication Awards. The group uses its position at the heart of the market to understand its pulse and focus on engaging with key decision-makers, influencers, and the world's most important businesses.

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