VietNamNet
Bridge – Though Internet service
providers have been increasing the bandwidth continuously, Vietnam’s Internet
speed on Akamai’s ranking has been staying at approximately 1.7 Mbps.
The
problem has been explained by Internet experts that content services being
provided in Vietnam are mostly basic services, while there has been no service
that needs large bandwidth.
No progress made after one year
The Q2
2010 report on the global Internet speed by Akamai, a network specializing in
providing Internet content in the US, showed that the Internet speed in Vietnam
was 1.7 Mbps, lower than the 1.8 Mbps level in the world. With the result,
Vietnam ranked the 32nd among the 50 surveyed countries in terms of Internet
speed.
In
South East Asia, Vietnam ranked behind Thailand (2.9 Mbps), Singapore (3.1
Mbps), and above Malaysia (1.19 Mbps), the Philippines (0.9 Mbps), and
Indonesia (0.63 Mbps). In Vietnam, 70 percent of Internet connections have the
speed of 256 Kbps - 2 Mbps, while only two percent reportedly had the
connection speed above 5 Mbps.
Akamai’s
Internet speed report in Q4 2011 showed that Vietnam had the average speed of
1.664 Mbps, lower than the average level of 2.3 Mbps in the world. Thirteen
percent of Internet connections had the speed lower than 256 Kbps, 2 percent
had the speed higher than 5 Mbps. In the 11-country ASEAN bloc, Vietnam ranked
behind Thailand (3.054 Mbps), Malaysia (1.8 Mbps) and Singapore (4.6 Mbps).
As
such, Vietnam’s Internet speed has not seen any improvement after one year,
staying at 1.7 Mbps.
Meanwhile,
according to NetIndex, the download speed of Vietnam’s Internet is at 8.04
Mbps, ranking the 54th among 180 countries in the world, and the upload speed
is 5.57 Mbps, ranking the 28th.
The
report has pointed out that Ben Tre is the province which has the fastest
download speed, at 17.38 Mbps, followed by Buon Ma Thuot 14.91 Mbsp and Vinh
City 12.82 Mbps.
If
comparing with October 2011, the download speed in Vietnam on Speedtest has
also decreased from 9.79 Mbps to 8.04 Mbps.
Meanwhile,
in 2011, Vietnamese Internet service providers continuously increased the
bandwidth or slash fees to satisfy the customers’ demand.
In
early March 2011, FPT Telecom announced it raised the access speed to 8 Mbps at
maximum, and exempted the iTV service fee. In early May 2011, VDC, a subsidiary
of the giant Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group raised the bandwidth of
MegaVNN service packages, while the package fee remained unchanged.
Developing content to stimulate Internet
speed
An
executive of VDC said that the unchanged Internet speed in Vietnam shows that
the speed has reached the threshold which can satisfy users’ demand. Therefore,
after a period of focusing on developing infrastructure items, it’s now the
time to pay attention to the development of the content services, in order to
increase the demand for large bandwidth.
Experts
said that all basic services, which have been in high demand, such as reading
news, searching information or listening to music, now absolutely can be
satisfied by ADSL packages. Therefore, in order to raise Vietnam’s Internet
speed, enterprises should think of developing content on large bandwidth infrastructure.
“We
have had large roads (large bandwidth), and now we need to have vehicles
(services) to run on the large roads,” an expert said.
Deputy
Chair of the Vietnam Internet Association Nguyen Long has also admitted that
there are few content products on Internet, except amusement services and
games. Other content services have not developed due to the problems relating
to the intellectual property rights.
Thu
Uyen
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