According to The minister Nguyen Manh Hung, the telecommunications sector, Vietnam is not weak, but if you don't renewal will the “old man”, also postal're young again, but need innovation right from when are good.
The message is The minister of Science and technology Nguyen Manh Hung stated at The launch of the year 2026 of the block Post and Telecommunications, one of the best 10/1.
The telecommunications sector, Vietnam is not as young as before anymore are old. In the past 10 years, we're stable, but less breakthrough. We maintain, but have not yet opened new growth engine. The growth rate is always below 5%.
Telecommunications has completed its historical mission, and was standing before the fork new. Achievements are: universal connector, take the Internet to all people, creating the foundation for the conversion of the country. It is the achievements of historical significance.
But growth pattern traditional based on the subscribers, traffic, ARPU (average revenue on a subscription) has to touch the ceiling. 3G/4G/5G only is G higher, but the new value created very little. Revenue telecommunications slowly increasing, while the data explosion, AI boom, the digital economy boom. There is a paradox that, telecommunications is the infrastructure of the digital era, but the main telecommunications're slower growth economic numbers.
The problem is not the technology, which in the model. The network of Vietnam, belonging to the group of the best in the region, the telecommunications business has a team of engineer strong. But the problem is, we are still thinking as an industry supply connection, while the world has moved to provide capacity number.
If telecommunications sell only minutes call, sell GB of data, it will increasingly reduce competition will be increasingly fierce, and the value will be increasingly thin, do not have the money to continue to invest heavily in infrastructure.
Telecommunications can't live forever by the sale of the pipe again.
The time has come to switch Telco to Digital Infrastructure Company, transfer the telecommunications company to company infrastructure. I want to emphasize a shifting vital: Telecommunications is not just infrastructure connection, which must become the infrastructure capacity of the economy. That means not only selling bandwidth, but also provides Cloud – AI – Data – Security – IoT – Platform. It as a kind of new power for business and society. Telecommunications have become the supply capacity of the whole package, not just the operator network.
5G not to faster, which to do things never do. If 5G just to watch the video sharper, load data faster then 5G will fail economically. 5G is only meaningful when going into the factory, port, sea, logistics, medical, energy, urban, becoming the infrastructure of the production and service of high value
This requires telecommunications, start with the vertical, understand math, production, operation, understand the cost of customers, and innovative solutions, not just selling sim. The network became the research and development rather than the network operator.
Telecommunications can't innovate alone, but must be open to the road. Telecom had the advantage that few industries have, which is: data, infrastructure, coverage, reliability, apparatus everywhere. So, telecommunications should not do in startup, not competitive with the business of technology, which should open infrastructure, open API, data sharing have control over, became the foundation for the whole ecosystem innovation, for tens of thousands of business technology, digital, creative, solve problems of business, of society.
Telecommunications power up, not when everything that is to help the tens of thousands of other businesses do better in their work.
The state will not hold telecommunications in the safe zone again. Do not keep telecommunications in management thinking old. Will move from the management of the telecommunications infrastructure to the management infrastructure of the national strategy; from frequency management to administration frequency for the purpose of development; from licensing to design the rules of the game new and sandbox.
The state will not do business, but open the way institutions for testing, new models, new services, and failures that have control. This will be the new profession of the state management of telecommunications, instead of licensing, inspection sim management, sale price, phone sale, data management, promotional.
The telecommunications sector, Vietnam is not weak, but is aging very quickly, if not renewed, will really be the “old man”.
Vietnam posts and telecommunications group can fully step into a new growth cycle, step to the innovation second after 40 years of innovation at a time. Not by a lot more subscribers, which equals more value for the economy and society. Move from infrastructure alo, infrastructure contact information to the infrastructure of the economy. Telecommunications of the next 10 years, not only human connection, which must be connected manufacturing, connected intelligence, and connected future.
Telecommunications became infrastructure, manufacturing, infrastructure and knowledge. State management to institutional change, change management, to create to create this transformation. Growth in telecommunications in the next 10 years also have 2 numbers.
Postal're young again, 10 years recently, postal rapid growth, 20-30%, thanks to e-commerce. But if the postal't renewal from now, then postage will also join the story as telecommunications. Lose 10 year slowed down to get a new momentum.
So, the postage need to change new right from the while well, now, to continue rapid growth of 20-30% in 10 years.
Shift the focus from the correspondence/postal/parcel to infrastructure, postal number, to logistics mild, address number, share data, postal, technology delivery, new compatible with ecommerce and economy numbers. Create space postage 3D operations on land and in space low vision.
State administration of postage to open the new space for the postage of at least 4-fold increase. To 2030 to 2035, postage must be greater than telecommunications.
Shifting the most important is the postage of digital space. Expand the new concept on the space of, for example, virtual warehouse.
Ecosystem postal number, including delivery, logistics, address number, data number, complete orders, infrastructure, warehousing...
The postal network, from last mile (delivery last leg) to become the complete network. Infrastructure postage can network like telecommunications network nationally, there is large inventory (like total stations) and in the central regions, small warehouses (like total station small) in the province, the focus subscribers in society, and then from it's last mile.
Open concept address from the district down to the households and individuals associated with digital maps, data, residential space of.
Expansion facilities courier traditional to new technologies such as drones, robots.
From delivery to completed orders, from 2 kg to 500 kg, postal service from mail and parcel to ecommerce, to delivery at home in the deep, far away.
Consider the establishment of the fund postal public utility.
Postal and telecommunications is a pair to ensure data flow and material flow of the economy.
Source: vnexpress