State President Vo Van Thuong has asked the Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel) to sustain its pioneering role in creating the digital government, digital society, and digital economy while visiting the Group on February 1.

The Group was also instructed to build modern and comprehensive digital infrastructure to create a favorable environment for other businesses to develop a digital service ecosystem, he said.

Viettel is expected to completely master 5G technology by 2025 and work towards 6G technology.

The President asked the Group to develop tools and solutions to ensure cyber security and promote telecoms investment abroad as well as to export more products and services to the world.

Viettel earned more than VND172 trillion ($7 billion) in revenue in 2023, up 5.4 per cent year-on-year.

It has invested in ten foreign markets on three continents and now ranks first in terms of telecoms market share in seven markets.