Key Changes In Vietnam's New Telecoms Law 2023

Overview

• 10 chapters and 73 articles.
• Taking effect as from July 1, 2024, except for certain provisions which will come into effect as from January 1, 2025 (on data center service, cloud computing services, OTT services).

NEW "NONTRADITIONAL" TELECOMS SERVICES

• Internet-based telecoms services: services that send, transmit, and receive information between two or among a group of users over the Internet (or OTT communications services).
• • Likely they will only include stand-alone communications services (eg, messaging, calling) and will exclude services with an extra communications function (eg, social networks apps).
• Data center service: a service that has features to process, store, and access information for users via telecommunications networks by leasing a data center in whole or in part.