Tiến Sĩ Assessment of Implementation of Government Strategies in Improving Competitiveness of Telecommunicat

Luận án tiến sĩ năm 2013
Đề tài: Assessment of Implementation of Government Strategies in Improving Competitiveness of Telecommunication Companies in Vietnam: Basis for Policy Redirection using PEST Analysis and Solution
Đánh giá sự ảnh hưởng của chiến lược nhà nước tới sự thúc đẩy cạnh tranh của các doanh nghiệp viễn thông Việt Nam: Cơ sở để khuyến nghị chính sách, sử dụng mô hình phân tích PEST
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS 10
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 12
1. Introduction . 12
2. Background of the study 15
3. Statement of the problem . 20
4. Significance of the study . 20
5. Scope and limitation of the study: Scope of the study and limitation . 21
5.1 Subject of the study . 21
5.2 Scope and limitations of the study . 21
6. Definition of terms Definition of terms . 22
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES 25
1. Literature review . 25
2. Conceptual frameworkConceptual framework 29
3. Characteristics of the competitive environment in telecommunications business 36
3.1 Influence of the political system, laws and policies: the Telecommunications Law,
the Enterprise Law, Investment Law, Competition Law . 36
3.2 The capacity depends on the manager. 37
3.3 The characteristics of the competitive relationship between the enterprises in the
field of high technology products and intangible services 38
4. Theoretical framework 39
4.1 PEST model . 39
4.2 The PEST elements of the telecommunications industry 41
CHAPTER III: Methodology 44
1. Research design . 44
2. Subject of the study . 44
3. Research instrument 44
4. Subjects of investigation 45
5. The survey content 45
CHAPTER IV: PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA 52
1. POLITICAL FACTORS, INSTITUTIONS, GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION
AFFECTING THE MARKET COMPETITION IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS . 62
1.1 The institutions and laws of the state of the competitive telecommunications
business in Vietnam. 62
1.2 Assessing the implementation of government policies for the development of
telecommunications competition . 68
1.3 Analysis of results surveys for Policy elements (P) 72
2. ECONOMIC FACTORS (E) THE IMPACT OF COMPETITIVE MARKETS IN
TELECOMMUNICATION . .
2.1 The economic situation in Vietnam in 2012, socio-economic indicators in 2013 79
2.2 Investment policies, tax incentives and government investment in infrastructure and
telecommunication services to promote effective competition in the telecommunications
business. 81
2.3 The economic integration and participation of many economic sectors to develop
competitive telecommunications. 87
2.4 Analysis of results surveys for Economic elements (E) 91
3. SOCIAL FACTORS (S) 97
3.1 Workforce ITC with the development of the Telecommunications business. 97
3.2 Implementation of programs of public telecommunications and telecommunications
development 103
3.3 Analysis of results surveys for Social elements 107
4. TECHNOLOGICAL FACTORS AFFECTING THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS
MARKET (T) 113
4.1 The impact of technology convergence factors for the telecommunications sector. 113
4.2 The impact of factors of state investment in research and development competitive
telecommunications . 116
4.3 Analysis of results surveys for Tenical elements (T) . 119
C. ACHIEVEMENTS, RESTRICTIONS AND CAUSE 126
1. THE ACHIEVEMENTS . 126
2. RESTRICTIONS AND CAUSE . 128
2.1 Restrictions 128
2.2 Cause of the limitations mentioned above. 129
CHAPTER V : SUMMARY, FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS 131
1. Solutions related to policy factors (P) . 131
2. Economic Solutions (E) . 134
3. Solutions related to social(S) . 136
4. Solutions related technology (T) 140
5. CONCLUSION . 125


CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction
Telecommunications, Vietnam's IT industry in recent years has been seen
significant development. It has met as a critical infrastructure for economic and social
development, required by the innovation of the country as well as it meets the needs of
providing essential services to people and contributes significantly to improvement on
people's knowledge, improves social and cultural life of the people. In order to gain the
success the Government has had the right policies. Government has made policies in
each period for telecommunications development that appropriate for socio-economic
development.
The opening of the telecommunications market promotes competition among
firms. This has created many positive effects such as the charges are step by step
significantly reduced. Nowadays more and more people have been able to get access to
the telecommunications services. The telecom market is more and more competitive
and there are major changes, new technology is applied rapidly. The quality of service
is improving and charge is lower. The sales of the telecommunications industry
increased 25-30% rate in the period 2001-2010. It becomes major contribution to the
state budget, to poverty reduction. The gap between regions, between urban and rural
areas has narrowed. Beside that it ensures the safety and security information.
The IT industry has become an important economic sector, with annual growth
rate higher than any other areas. The contribution to GDP growth increases year to year.
The whole IT industry average revenue growth in the period 2001-2009 represented 20-25% per year. By the end of 2010, the revenue of the software industry and digital
content industry reached 2 billion USD, the hardware industry revenue reached 5.6
billion USD, revenue of telecommunications services reached over 9.4 billion USD,
bringing the total revenue of telecom and IT industry in 2010 to 17 billion USD, 19
times higher than that in 2000.
On September 22, 2010, the Prime Minister signed Decision No. 1755/QD-TTg to
approve the National Strategy on “Transforming Viet Nam into an Advanced ICT
country” (referred to as The Strategy from now on). This reflects the political
determination of the Party of Viet Nam and the Government in developing ICT industry
to keep pace with countries in the region and the world.
The Strategy sets out objectives as: to develop ICT human resources to
international standards; to build ICT industry, especially software industry, digital
content industry and IT services, to become a leading economic sector, so as to
contribute significantly to GDP growth and exports; to set up a broadband information
infrastructure in the whole country; to apply IT effectively in all socio-economic aspects
and national security, defense. The annual growth rate of the ICT industry income is to
reach at least 2-3 times the growth rate of GDP. By 2020, the contribution of ICT
industry to GDP should be from 8% to 10%.
Based on these views and objectives, The Strategy identifies six groups of tasks
focusing on issues such as: developing ICT human resource; developing ICT Industry;
continuing to develop and improve the telecommunications and IT infrastructure;
building and deploying suitable supporting solutions for providing digital information to
households; applying IT effectively in government agencies, enterprises and the society;
strengthening research capacity in the ICT sector; mastering gradually and developing
technologies for creating new products. The Strategy also stated six solutions:
enhancing information dissemination regarding the Strategy; promoting the
socialization of investment in ICT, especially in the development of broadband
telecommunications infrastructure; providing investment incentives for priority areas;
building and improving institutional frameworks; establishing a specific mechanisms
and renewing policies; promoting international cooperation.
( White book 2011 page 16)
The ICT state management system was formed in order to promote and develop
ICT sector. In 2002, the National Assembly approved the establishment of the Ministry
of Post and Telematics, responsible for the development of post, telecommunications
and IT. In 2007, the Ministry of Information and Communications was established on
the basis of the Ministry of Post and Telematics with an additional responsibility for the
areas of press and publishing. Regulation in provinces is implemented and in charged
by local Departments of Information and Communications. IT application dedicated
departments/units were established in all central ministries/agencies, including 06
ministries/ ministerial-level agencies with specialized IT Department.
Policy and regulatory environment for the ICT application and development has
been significantly improved. About 180 legal documents on ICT were issued in the
period 2001-2010, including Electronic Transactions Law 2005, IT Law 2006,
Telecommunications Law 2009, Radio Frequency Law 2009, Postal Law 2010 and
many Decrees and Decisions of the Government and the Prime Minister on post and
telecommunications, Internet, information technology, radio frequency, etc. These
documents have created a legal system and made important contributions to promote
ICT application and development in recent years.
Implementation of market-opening commitments to the WTO, the international
economic integration, the trend of convergence with the type of telecommunications
services, many businesses network infrastructure, providing enterprise telecom services
have been license, with participation in the future of private enterprise and foreign
competition in the telecommunications market will become increasingly fierce and
strong on all aspects and services segment of the market.
Ensuring a healthy competitive environment, equality for businesses is a top
priority; urgent requirement for the development of Vietnam's telecommunications
industry in the future. To do this, the State's role is extremely important. State is in
one’s capacity as administrative- law agencies and as the management agency at macro
will creates legal frameworks, policies and measures to contribute to important
competitive environment of the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications businesses.
In the historical context of Vietnam recent years, the development of
telecommunications has shifted gradually from the state monopoly to market
mechanisms are regulated by the state, the organizational structure of the
telecommunications business the greater the change, the new telecommunications group
was established, the mechanism of government policy for the sector has also changed.
The government's policies are decisive, influence on the development of industry and
especially the competitiveness telecommunications.


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