The Ho Chi Minh City (HCM) Department of Transport is preparing a plan to reorganize the city’s bus system to ease the current congestion status. As suggested by experts, bus priority lanes should be piloted this year to ensure route schedules and bus safety.

Being one of the key focuses in the project ‘Transforming Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) into Smart City’, the shared digital map with its huge critical common database is now piloting in the city, predicted to provide substantial benefits to both residents and businesses here.

The Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services One Member Limited Liability Company (MobiFone) announced that it has asked the Ministry of Information and Communications to pilot the 5G technology for mobile devices in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City before formally launching it.

Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung has officially allowed Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel) to pilot the mobile technology 5G free of charge in one year at 73 locations in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC).

The Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) announced yesterday that it will follow instruction from the Ministry of Information and Communications to converse all of its 11-digit mobile phone numbers to 10-digit ones in September 15.