Basic contents of the Law on Telecommunications 2009 of Vietnam

Expanding economic sectors in telecommunications business

In fact, although Vietnam's telecommunications infrastructure in recent years has developed very quickly, the scale and sustainable development compared to other countries in the region and the world are still limited. In order to develop a nationwide telecommunications network to meet the requirements of the renovation and industrialization of the country, Vietnam still needs huge investments to develop the national telecommunications network. Thus, it is very necessary to mobilize and encourage all resources of the society, including the private sector, to participate in infrastructure development. Therefore, the Law on Telecommunications of Vietnam stipulates that enterprises of all economic sectors established under Vietnamese law are entitled to participate in providing telecommunications services as well as establishing telecommunications network infrastructure.

Strengthening state management in telecommunications activities

The Law on Telecommunications of Vietnam assigned to the Prime Minister stipulates that the State holding controlling shares in a number of key telecommunications enterprises is of special importance to the entire national telecommunications network and directly affects the socio-economic development and ensures national security and defense. Besides, the Law on Telecommunications of Vietnam also strengthens law enforcement in the telecommunications sector on the basis of establishing a specialized management agency in charge of telecommunications to manage the telecommunications market and operations.

Ensuring the rights and interests of telecommunications service users

In order to strengthen the guarantee of the rights and interests of telecommunications service users, the Law on Telecommunications of Vietnam provides a number of provisions to protect the legitimate rights and interests of telecommunications service users such as the obligation to provide public telecommunications services; detailing the model contract (between the service provider and the user); the telecommunications enterprise's responsibility, before putting network equipment and metering equipment into operation, must carry out the inspection; the enterprise's responsibility when stopping service provision; freight refund, compensation for damage; emergency service, subscriber number lookup service etc.

Ensuring a fair, transparent and open business environment

The Law on Telecommunications of Vietnam prescribes a number of chapters (Chapter 2) on telecommunications business. The provisions of this chapter will continue to promote competition and create conditions for all economic sectors to participate in telecommunications business in an equal, fair and transparent environment under the market mechanism and socialist orientation.

Universalization of telecommunications services in rural, remote and isolated areas etc.

In parallel with promoting telecommunications business activities according to the market mechanism, the State has policies and mechanisms to ensure the provision of essential telecommunications services to all people, especially in remote areas because doing business in these areas is not enough to cover costs and generate profits according to the market mechanism.

Inheriting the provisions of the Ordinance on Posts and telecommunications 2002 of Vietnam on the provision of public telecommunications services and to continue promoting the universalization of telecommunications services to all people across the country, in order to shorten the gap in the use of telecommunications services between regions and regions, promote socio-economic development as well as ensure security and defense, the Law on Telecommunications of Vietnam provides for a chapter on Public-Utility Telecommunications.

Source: daibieunhandan.vn

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