State policies on telecommunications

1. Creating conditions for organizations and individuals of all economic sectors to invest in telecommunications and conduct telecommunications business with a view to rapidly developing and modernizing telecommunications infrastructure, diversifying telecommunications services and meeting requirements of socio-economic development, contributing lo the national defense and security maintenance, and raising the people's living standards.

2. Assuring an environment of fair competition in telecommunications activities.

3. Creating favorable conditions for development of telecommunications infrastructure and provision of telecommunications services in deep-lying, remote and border areas, islands, areas with exceptional socio-economic difficulties; clearly distinguishing public-utility telecommunications activities from telecommunications business activities; promoting the use of the Internet in the domains of education, training, health care and scientific research.

4. Intensifying investment in building and modernizing exclusive-use telecommunications networks in service of defense and security activities and operations of agencies of the Party and the State.

5. Promoting the development of telecommunications human resources to meet requirements of the management, exploitation and effective commercial operation of telecommunications infrastructure.

6. Enhancing international cooperation in telecommunications on the basis of respect for independence, sovereignty, equality and mutual benefit and compliance with Vietnamese laws and treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a contracting party.

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