Viettel’s Metfone wins World Communications Award

Nhan Dan – Metfone, the Viettel-run mobile operator in Cambodia, was named the best mobile operator in a developing market at the World Communications Awards in London, England on November 7.
Viettel's Metfone is the largest mobile operator in Cambodia.
Viettel's Metfone is the largest mobile operator in Cambodia.

Viettel’s Metfone was honoured for its innovative solutions to overcoming inherent conditions in Cambodia’s mobile service market to achieve commercial success and benefit Cambodian society.

Since Viettel launched its Metfone mobile service in Cambodia in 2009, the company has become the largest mobile operator in the country, accounting for 48% of the national mobile market with over seven million subscribers.

Viettel received the same World Communications Award in 2009 and also .won the Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Award for ‘Emerging Market Service Provider of the Year’ the same year.

The World Communications Awards were established in 1999 to recognise excellence in global telecommunications service providers.