A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the Vietnam Public-Utility Telecommunication Service Fund (VTF) under the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications and Intel Vietnam in Hanoi on August 5 to deploy the “Connected Communities” programme.

VTF will co-ordinate with Intel’s technicians to create a set of tools in order to promote and launch telecom access stations in isolated areas.

Intel will introduce standard technical models so as to launch low cost access stations that are affordable for the majority of Vietnamese household budgets.

Addressing the signing ceremony, Deputy Minister of Information and Telecommunications Tran Duc Lai said the programme will help boost the development and application of IT and telecommunications and narrow digital divide as well as bring technological advances to people in rural and isolated areas.