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Deputy Prime Minister Ho Chi Dung has signed Decision No. 777/QĐ-TTg approving the Program for the Provision of Public Interest Telecommunication Services through 2030. The program targets universal access to public telecommunication services across electrified areas, including remote and disadvantaged locations, and sets specific coverage and support goals for individuals, households, and community facilities.
The program aims to ensure that 100% of electrified areas receive public telecommunication services, including:
For mandated telecommunications services, the program strives for 100% of eligible individuals to be supported in using mandated telecom services.
For universal telecom services, the program aims for 100% coverage of poor and near-poor households nationwide that need support to access fixed terrestrial broadband Internet or terrestrial mobile telecommunications. It also targets 100% of policy beneficiaries—including early childhood and school facilities (including school sites), commune health stations, and points supporting ethnic minority communities—to be provided access to fixed broadband Internet.
In areas lacking terrestrial telecommunications—particularly special difficult areas, ethnic minority and mountainous regions, and coastal and island areas—the program will support 100% of community points with low-Earth-orbit satellite telecommunications services.
For maritime communications, 100% of fishermen on vessels operating in Vietnamese waters who need it will be supported to use maritime mobile telecommunications services.
Regarding terminal devices, the program aims to provide 400,000 smartphones to poor and near-poor households.
The program will exclude households that have already received devices under the Prime Minister’s program “Sóng và máy tính cho em” launched on September 12, 2021. It will also exclude households already supported by state budget funds under other programs from January 1, 2021 up to the date of the support list.
The program will implement three main task groups: public telecommunication service provision, support for using public telecommunication services, and support for terminal devices.
The program will subsidize the cost of new development and maintenance of telecommunication infrastructure to provide public telecommunication services on land mobile networks in areas without terrestrial mobile telecommunication coverage.
It will also provide support to offset maintenance costs for telecommunication infrastructure to provide public telecommunication services on land mobile networks in areas where only one enterprise has invested in infrastructure to provide mobile services under the Public Telecommunications Service Program through 2025.
The program will support costs for new development and maintenance of infrastructure to provide fixed broadband Internet access on land-based networks where it is not yet available.
It will further provide support to offset maintenance costs for fixed broadband Internet access on land-based networks in areas where only one enterprise has invested in infrastructure to provide broadband access under the Public Telecommunications Service Program through 2025.
The program will support costs to upgrade and maintain telecommunications infrastructure to align with technology development or to provide mandated telecommunications services as required by the State, ensuring communications in emergencies as prescribed by law.
Implementation will cover hamlets in special difficult communes in ethnic minority and mountainous regions; remaining special difficult hamlets in these regions; hamlets in special difficult coastal and island areas; and offshore platforms.
The program duration runs from April 30, 2026 to December 31, 2030.
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