
Telecommunication in Vietnam
Compared to the United States, Vietnam has a slight downturn in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +84, there were a total of 138.47 million connections in 2021. Among them were 135.35 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.4 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 189,553 webhosts, Vietnam is below the world's average by population.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 82.22 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Vietnam ranks 46th in an international comparison. The upload rate was 83.90 Mbit/second (23rd place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Vietnam comes 51st with a download speed of 42.07 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 18 Mbit was enough for 11th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in December 2022 from 178 countries.
The following diagrams show the development of the various telephone and internet connections as a percentage of the country's population. Values above 100 percent mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the internet in Vietnam from 1990 - 2021
Broadband internet in Vietnam 2002 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
Distribution in 2021 | Vietnam Total | Vietnam percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Broadband users | 19.33 m | 19.83 % | 127.03 m | 38.27 % |
Landlines | 3.12 m | 3.20 % | 97.11 m | 29.26 % |
Mobile cellulars | 135.35 m | 138.87 % | 361.62 m | 108.96 % |