(March 23, 2013) The strong infrastructure system and the experience in market development of telecom groups will make them the redoubtable rivals to the existing cable TV service providers, including the national VTV.
The biggest advantage of the existing TV enterprises lies in the content production. Meanwhile, this proves to be the biggest disadvantage of telecom groups once their join the TV market.
However, telcos have a great advantage in transmission, which is the biggest disadvantage of the current TV enterprises. It’s obviously an impossible mission for TV enterprises to build up the transmission lines to provide services to every household in communes and villages.
Therefore, TV enterprises anticipate that they would be inferior to telcos when the telcos join the pay-TV market. As soon as telcos expressed their intention to jump into the market, TV enterprises raised a campaign to prevent telcos from entering their land.
In a document sent to competent agencies, the alliance of TV enterprises, headed by VTV, accused Viettel, VNPT and FPT, the big telcos planning to jump into the pay-TV market, of making investment in non-core business fields, thus coming contrary to the government’s policy which says that state owned enterprises need to gather their strength on the main business fields.
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