THE GENERAL DEPARTMENT
OF POST AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence- Freedom- Happiness
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No.09/2001/CT-TCBD
Hanoi, November 30, 2001
 
DIRECTIVE
ON IMPLEMENTING THE PRIME MINISTER’S DECISION NO.158/ 2001/QD-TTG RATIFYING VIETNAM POST AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY TILL 2010 AND ORIENTATIONS TILL 2020.
On October 18, 2001, the Prime Minister issued Decision No.158/ 2001/QD-TTg ratifying "Vietnam post and telecommunications development strategy till 2010 and orientations till 2020". The strategy determined viewpoints, objectives, orientations and major solutions for Vietnam post, telecommunications and Internet development in the period of industrialization, modernization and international economic integration.
The main objective of the strategy is quick development so that by 2001 the national information infrastructure shall be equipped with modern technologies and cover the whole nation with high flux, speed and high quality; universalization levelof Vietnam post, telecommunications and Internet services shall reach the average level of the regional countries; the society and consumers shall be provided with modern and diversified services at prices below or equal to the prices of the regional countries; post and telecommunications shall be built up into a spearhead economic branch which fruitfully operates, thus contributing to socio-economic development and ensuring the national security and defense.
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