Italy plans to invest in a super-fast Internet with a speed of 1 gigabyte to provide it to all people by 2026. Artwork: jedsundwall.com Italy plans to expand its tax relief plan to quickly bring superfast broadband to buildings. The move comes as the country struggles to close the gap in digital development with the rest of Europe. The European Union’s (EU) third-largest economy now ranks second from the bottom out of the bloc’s 27 member states in terms of Internet usage. According to the latest EU data, about 17% of Italians have never used the web and only 13% of Italian households sign up for a super-fast broadband connection with a speed of at least 100 megabytes. Italy’s new government, led by former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi, plans to spend more than 8 billion euros ($9.76 billion) from EU support funds on broadband, mobile networks. fifth generation (5G) and satellite technology and want a super-fast Internet connection at 1 gigabyte made available to all Italians by 2026. With this goal in mind, the Italian government is considering measures such as deploying fiber optic cables or exempting existing tax rates for residents when renovating the telecommunications network for their homes. This measure allows people to be partially exempted from the current 110% tax rate when renovating and upgrading telecommunications networks to help houses “become smarter”, thereby enhancing energy savings. quantity./.

Vietnam is one of the fastest growing telecommunications markets in the region and the world in recent years. According to the General Statistics Office, at the end of 2005, Vietnam had only 15.8 million telephone subscribers, including 8.7 million mobile phone subscribers and 7.1 million landline phone subscribers and 210,000 telephone subscribers. cover the Internet. But only 5 years later, the whole country had 125.9 million phone subscribers, nearly 8 times more. In which, there are 111.5 million mobile phone subscribers, 12.8 times higher and 14.4 million landline phone subscribers, 2 times higher. The number of Internet subscribers increased rapidly during this period with 3.7 million fixed broadband Internet subscribers, 17 times higher than 2005. But after that, the number of phone subscribers decreased gradually, the biggest decrease was fixed phones. In the period 2012 – 2015, the number of telephone subscribers achieved an average growth of 0.5%/year, of which the number of mobile phone subscribers increased by 2.1%/year and fixed subscribers decreased by 17.7%/year. year. In contrast, the number of fixed broadband Internet subscribers is still growing quite high, an average of nearly 16% per year, reaching 7.7 million subscribers in 2015. However, in recent years, the telecommunications market is facing saturation of traditional telecommunications services. The number of landline phone subscribers tends to decrease sharply. By the end of 2020, there were only 3.2 million subscribers, down 41% compared to the same period in 2015 and down 78% compared to the same period in 2010. The operation of the fixed telephone service segment is currently only in moderation, mainly serving agencies, government organizations and businesses. For mobile phone subscribers, by the end of 2020, the whole country has 123.6 million subscribers, which is only close to the number of subscribers in 2015. In addition to the recent decrease in demand, there are also mobile phone operators. The network handles garbage SIM according to the regulations of the Ministry of Information and Communications. The number of broadband Internet subscribers continued to maintain a high growth rate for many years when at the end of last year, there were 16.7 million subscribers, 2.2 times higher than in 2015, an average annual increase of 16.9%. The growth rate of the telecommunications market is also reflected in the revenue figures, whereby telecommunications revenue in 2010 reached 177.8 trillion VND, maintaining the growth rate of over 40% in previous years. By the period 2011 – 2015, post and telecommunications revenue continued to maintain a fairly high growth rate, increasing by nearly 60% in 2015 compared to 2010, increasing by nearly 10% on average per year. In the period of 2016 – 2018, telecommunications revenue maintained a fairly high increase of nearly 8% compared to the previous year, but by 2019 only increased by 2.6%. Particularly in 2020 due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, telecommunications revenue dropped sharply by 13.6%, reaching only VND 315,200 billion. The telecommunications market share is quite fiercely competitive by optimizing value-added services on the number of existing subscribers. In addition, revenue from traditional telecommunications services is also greatly influenced by the popularity of free calling and messaging OTT applications. Decision No. 749/QD-TTg dated June 3, 2020 of the Prime Minister approving the “National Digital Transformation Program to 2025, with orientation to 2030” has made Vietnam one of the The first country in the world to issue a program on National Digital Transformation, which is a favorable condition for businesses to actively exploit the opportunities brought by the technological revolution. With the goal of “Vietnam belongs to the group of 70 leading countries in e-Government (EGDI)”; “Digital economy accounts for 20% of GDP”; “The fiber optic broadband network infrastructure covers over 80% of households, 100% of communes” and “Universal 4G/5G mobile network services and smart phones”, telecommunications businesses, digital businesses there is a lot of room for growth.

SpaceX denied claims that the Starlink and OneWeb satellites almost collided In a filing submitted to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after a meeting between representatives of SpaceX, OneWeb and FCC, SpaceX said that, in fact, the probability of a collision never exceeds the allowed threshold and the satellite will not be able to collide even if it is active. They have also corrected records regarding recent press releases regarding the physical coordination between SpaceX and OneWeb. Meeting between the parties took place the day after the flyer The Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Elon Musk’s satellite Internet project is too risky,” in which OneWeb made allegations that the Starlink satellites had approached other satellites alarmingly two. times in the past two years, including the last which took place on April 2, when a satellite Starlink Send a request to a OneWeb satellite to take collision avoidance measures. Sheet The Wall Street Journal quoted Chris McLaughlin, OneWeb’s director of legal and government relations, saying, “While working with OneWeb, SpaceX disabled the automated collision avoidance system supported by artificial intelligence (AI) to allow OneWeb to steer its satellite away from other satellites. It is unclear exactly why SpaceX disables the collision avoidance system when the Starlink satellite is within 57 meters from the opponent’s satellite. SpaceX has not yet commented on this issue. In a filing filed with the FCC on April 21, SpaceX said: “OneWeb recently made clear and inaccurate statements to the media about recent coordination. Specifically, Mr. McLaughlin of OneWeb told the newspaper Wall Street Journal that SpaceX has powered off the automatic satellite collision avoidance system. In reality, however, SpaceX and OneWeb have worked well together on a technical level. And OneWeb itself has asked SpaceX to temporarily turn off the AI ​​system to allow them to control the satellite as agreed by the parties. SpaceX’s automatic collision avoidance system has been and still works well at all times. According to SpaceX, OneWeb admitted wrongly and offered to withdraw its false statements during the meeting with SpaceX and FCC. SpaceX expressed its disappointment to the FCC that OneWeb officials chose to make public false information about the coordination’s plight. Successful coordination depends on trust and transparency among satellite operators. Also in the filing to the FCC, SpaceX confirmed that the possibility of collisions between satellites is very small. Other data also showed that “probability of collisions between satellites is below the permitted threshold and continues to decrease”. OneWeb launched satellite launch operations on April 3, and the satellites are eventually more than 1,000 meters apart. The probability of a collision happening is extremely small. Phan Van Hoa (According to Arstechnica)

China’s test network connects 40 top universities in preparation for a society powered by artificial intelligence (Image: Shutterstock) Located at Tsinghua University, “Future Internet Technology Base” connects 40 universities, the country’s leading research institute with much lower bandwidth and latency than the current Internet. ; According to the Xinhua state news agency. This facility will serve as the “backbone” for the China Network Innovation Environment (CENI) – a research facility linking the largest cities in China – to confirm the effectiveness and safety of the public. network technology in the future before bringing it into commercial use. When completed in 2023, the CENI facility will become a prototype of the “Internet of the Future”, connecting almost everything – from home computers to cars on the street – to serve information without compromise. disruption in a society powered by artificial intelligence (AI). “We will put a lot of effort into it. The Internet of the future needs to withstand all kinds of attacks. It is important to our national security, ”an anonymous computer scientist who was involved in the project at Tsinghua University told SCMP. China’s current Internet is built with Western technology and is full of backdoors. The US government’s Prism project, for example, took advantage of these weaknesses to penetrate the Chinese government and some of its research institutes, including Tsinghua; according to “whistleblower” Edward Snowden. Following Snowden’s revelation, the Beijing government has stepped up efforts to replace Western hardware in its information infrastructures. In recent years, a number of Chinese telecom companies, including Huawei Technologies Co., have outperformed Western firms in 5G network development and many other technologies. But their lead is limited to certain areas, while foreign software and protocols still prevail in the Chinese network. The US government has also launched a multitude of test networks, including the Global Network Innovation Environment (GENI) to maintain their leadership position in networking technology. Other players – such as the EU, Japan and South Korea – have also started similar projects. According to Tan Hang, the lead scientist working on the CENI project, the construction of the Chinese test network began in 2019. China’s base is to counter the US GENI program, with completely different technology. For example, China will develop a brand new operating system to manage data flow and “conversation”. between devices on the future Internet network, with the support of domestically produced hardware – from routers, servers to computer chips…, according to Mr. Tan. This 1.7 billion yuan ($ 260 million) network base will “enhance our country’s competitiveness and allow us to gain an edge in the international cyber competition,” said Mr. Tan. more. China has now embarked on building the world’s largest 5G network, and in the foreseeable future, a large number of smart devices – including self-driving cars – will connect to the Internet. These devices can produce and request huge amounts of data, while allowing only minimal communication delay and each device needs a unique ID. According to Mr. Tan, the current Internet base, based on military technology from the 1980s, is not strong enough to meet future requirements. And the more things connected to the Internet, the greater the damage caused by a network attack. New security protocols developed by Chinese researchers to locate and identify any device in the future network will be tested in the CENI network; according to Mr. Tan. The CENI network “will support attack and defense training” by allowing more than 4,000 teams across the country to conduct separate experiments at the same time; he said. Of course, China’s network will not be isolated, but will connect to existing Internet networks, as well as test networks in other countries, including the Future Internet Research and Test Network (FIRE) of Europe; according to the EU.

FTP stock price chart from the beginning of the year to now. FPT Joint Stock Company (FPT code-HOSE) has just announced business results for the first quarter of 2021 with revenue and profit before tax increasing by 14.4% and 22.3% year-on-year. Accordingly, at the end of Q1 / 2021, FPT’s revenue reached 7,586 billion VND and pre-tax profit reached 1,397 billion VND, up 14.4% and 22.3%, equivalent to 102% and 105% of the year plan. According to FPT, the strong growth in revenue and profit was due to the highest growth in technology sales in the last 4 quarters and the strong growth in the Telecommunications and Education sector. Specifically: Technology sector contributes 40% to the total profit after tax and 55% of the total revenue of the Group. New sales of Technology sector reached 5,834 billion VND, the highest level in the last 4 quarters and increased 46.3% over the same period. In addition, with the orientation of focusing on digital transformation for the customers of the Government and large enterprises, at the same time focusing on developing solutions, Made by FPT platforms, and information technology services for the market. FPT’s domestic market recorded high growth in both revenue and profit after tax, reaching VND 986 billion, up 40.1% and VND 59 billion, up 1,828.7% over the same period. In foreign markets, the revenue from IT services recorded VND 3,169 billion in revenue, up 9.6% over the same period. Profit after tax of this service sector reached VND495 billion, up 16.4% compared to quarter 1/2020, when the international market was not affected by Covid-19. With the strategy of “whale hunting” (focusing on large enterprises and high value contracts), FPT successfully signed 04 large contracts with sales of over 5 million USD / contract in Q1. / 2021. As a result, new sales of foreign markets increased by 43%, reaching VND 4,489 billion, which is the basis for accelerating the growth rate of revenue and profit in the remaining quarters of 2021. Telecommunication Division recorded 2,925 billion in revenue, up 9.6%, and 576 billion in profit after tax, up 29% over the same period. In which, the Telecom Services sector achieved VND 524 billion in profit after tax, up 30.7% thanks to the improvement in the after-tax profit margin of the Broadband Services segment as well as the new profit from the TV service segment. pay. Meanwhile, the revenue from the Education sector reached 698 billion VND, up 57% over the same period. It is known that the company’s General Meeting of Shareholders approved the business plan in 2021 with revenue of 34,720 billion VND, an increase of 16.4% and pre-tax profit of 6,210 billion VND, up 18%.

The technology giants like Amazon, SpaceX, OneWeb continuously pour money to invest in satellite Internet. Photo: TechCrunch In recent years, satellite broadband is becoming an increasingly popular way to connect to the Internet. Major space companies are also in the race to build ultra-high-speed Internet services through orbiting satellites. Now, the field is forming a model similar to the “Seven Warring Heroes”. The companies are all moving towards a common goal: competing to be the biggest brand in broadband satellite and SpaceX’s position with Starlink dominance is being challenged. SpaceX’s Starlink project SpaceX boss – Elon Musk Of all the companies, SpaceX is the one involved with the most satellite launches. Its Starlink project has more than 1,350 satellites in orbit and plans to launch 42,000 satellites by mid-2027. Eventually, SpaceX hopes to have thousands of satellites around the Earth to establish a global network. Starlink’s Beta “Better than Nothing” was launched last October and attracted more than 10,000 users in six different countries. Starlink’s business model connects customers directly with satellites without the intervention of telecom companies between the two parties. Users register for Starlink service through the website. Once the order is accepted, Starlink will send the hardware set to the customer, which includes a tripod, WiFi router and satellite antenna. Monthly subscription fee is $ 99, and maximum download speed can reach 210 Mbps. Starlink is expanding rapidly and plans to install antennas on vehicles and connect them to satellite networks. According to the test of Internet analytics service developer Ookla, the download speed when using SpaceX’s satellite Internet is 95% faster than the normal Internet in the United States. Project Kuiper from Amazon The Amazon project is named Kuiper In 2018, Amazon’s Kuiper Project was revealed. At that time, government documents showed that the tech giant was working to build global space-based Internet services. The goal of the project is to launch 3236 satellites into a 630 km long orbit, very close to the 550 km altitude of the Starlink satellite. In January of this year, the US Federal Communications Commission approved the Kuiper Project to launch Amazon satellites into space before July 2029, and connect them to antennas on Earth to provide translation. Internet service. As of July 30, 2026, 50% of the project’s satellites will operate. Like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, the boss of Amazon, also owns a private rocket and space service company called Blue Orgin. Although no specific plans have been announced, the company is believed to be in charge of bringing the Kuiper satellite into orbit. OneWeb The Soyuz-2.1b carrier missile carries 36 OneWeb satellites that take off from the launch pad of the Vostocini launch pad. OneWeb is a UK owned broadband satellite provider. It currently has 146 satellites in orbit, 1,200 km from the ground and plans to launch a total of 648 satellites to provide global Internet service. In November last year, the company got out of bankruptcy thanks to the British government and India’s Bharti Group. OneWeb hopes to provide Internet services to the entire UK by June. Its latest service will cover the highest latitudes in the world, including Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Russia and Nordic countries. This British company provides a B2B model, provides satellite Internet to telecom companies, then the telecom companies deliver services to customers. Both SpaceX and OneWeb launched satellites into space on March 25, clearly showing a race between the world’s two leading powers in space technology. Hughes Net Satellite team Hughes Jupiter 2 Hughes Net is the largest satellite Internet provider in the United States. It relies on geostationary orbit (GEO) satellites 36,210 km away to transmit the Internet back to earth. The main difference between a satellite operating in low Earth Orbit (LEO) and a geostationary satellite is that GEO satellites can cause delays in video calls and public calls. other technology. However, the GEO satellites are in a fixed position, so unlike LEO satellites, they will not travel in orbit but target a specific area. The Hughes Network has more than 1.5 million users and six satellites in orbit, covering different areas of North America, South America and Canada, including Mexico, Brazil and Chile. The last satellite that Hughes launched was in June 2018 and its goal is to put another satellite, called Jupiter 3, into orbit by the second half of 2022. It is said that this will be a commercial satellite. the biggest ever. Hughes’ satellite service costs range from $ 59.99 to $ 149.99 per month and download speeds of 25Mbps. The kit is priced at $ 249.99, and the installation costs $ 199. The company also offers public WiFi hotspots for rural Latin America for people who cannot afford subscription fees. Telesat Daniel Goldberg, CEO and President of Telesat, Canada’s satellite operator Telesat has 15 GEO satellites at an altitude of 35,000 km above Earth. The company also plans to build an LEO Internet called “LightSpeed”. The first 298 satellites built by Thales Alenia Space are scheduled to launch in early 2023 and provide global services by 2024. According to reports, Goldberg confirmed at the 2021 LEO Satellite Digital Forum on April 6 that the LightSpeed ​​project would cost $ 5 billion. This is much cheaper than the projects of SpaceX and Amazon, which are more than $ 10 billion. Goldberg recently stated that Telesat has the best pricing in the market. In 2019, Telesat signed a launch agreement with Blue Origin to use New Glenn rockets to send LEO satellites into orbit. David Wendling, Telesat’s chief technology officer, revealed that the company has three other startups underway. ViaSat ViaSat application on smartphone ViaSat is headquartered in California, USA, operates five GEO satellites at an altitude of about 35,000 km from the Earth’s surface. The company will put three extremely powerful GEO satellites into orbit by the beginning of 2022 and achieve globalization goals until 2023. ViaSat also plans to put 288 satellites into orbit LEO by 2026. ViaSat executive chairman and co-founder Mark Dankberg said the GEO and LEO satellites would complement each other. ViaSat is working hard to create a “multi-orbit satellite Internet where users can seamlessly use GEO satellites and LEO satellites.” In December 2020, Viasat asked the FCC to study Starlink’s potential environmental impact. In response, Musk wrote on Twitter: “Obviously, Starlink is a ‘threat’ to Viasat’s profits.” Eutelsat Eutelsat is Europe’s satellite operator with 39 GEO satellites at an altitude of 46,000 km. The company now provides Internet services to the regions of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and plans to launch another satellite called Konnect VHTS to cover the rest of Europe. Michel Azibert, Executive Vice President of Eutelsat, said: “Konnect VHTS will change the rules of the game and allow Eutelsat to seamlessly deliver powerful Internet services to users at prices comparable to the above operators. ground.” Azibert says Eutelsat’s satellite service “is much lower than Starlink, very well suited to the rural markets we’re targeting in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.” Eutelsat was founded in 1977 and launched its first satellite in 1983.

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Huy Dung. Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Huy Dung exchanged the above views at the launch of EcoDC Green Data Center (Eco Data Center) – the project of HTC International Telecommunication Joint Stock Company (HTC-ITC) – just took place on April 15. According to Deputy Minister Dung, the development of digital infrastructure includes developing broadband telecommunications infrastructure, cloud computing platform, electronic identification and authentication, and realizing the vision of each citizen with a smartphone. , each household has an optical fiber line. Talking about EcoDC Green Data Center, Mr. Dung said that the EcoDC data center meeting both Uptime Tier 3 standards in terms of design and operation is a serious work of HTC-ITC. This will also be a steady step in the process of national digital transformation, increasing opportunities to attract more investment sources into the Vietnamese information technology market. Emphasizing that Vietnam is implementing digital transformation, moving all activities from real space to cyberspace, from real environment to digital environment, Deputy Minister Nguyen Huy Dung expressed: “We also hope HanoiTelecom and especially EcoDC, let’s take on the mission of being a giant shoulder for small and medium enterprises and especially for Vietnam’s digital transformation process, because the data center is the heart of every application. use, all the platforms and this is very important ”. Vietnam currently has a total of 5 Data Center systems meeting Uptime Tier 3 standards, but this is the first time a Data Center in Vietnam meets both Uptime Tier 3 standards in design and construction. He also noted that, as a platform infrastructure provider, HTC-ITC should soon work with the functional units of the Ministry of Information and Communications to meet the technical requirements set forth for the guarantee of operation and network security safety “On the side of the Government, the Ministry of Information and Communications is always ready to listen to and solve difficulties and suggestions of telecommunications and information technology businesses, while creating favorable conditions for them to develop and develop at the same time. creating a common playground for them to resonate and bring value to customers “- Deputy Minister Nguyen Huy Dung said. It is known that HTC-ITC has officially put into operation EcoDC data center at Lang hi-tech park – Hoa Lac (Hanoi). This is the first data center in Vietnam that meets Uptime Tier 3 standards in both design (TCCD) and construction and operation (TCCF). Uptime Tier 3 is the 3rd on the Uptime Institute’s four-tiered data center scale. In addition to meeting technical standards, EcoDC cooperates with VNCS – a member unit specializing in information security of Hanoi Telecom to provide comprehensive information security solutions from anti-DDOS, firewall, and central information security (SOC) to individual security solutions for each customer. EcoDC will officially launch and start operating from April 2021. “EcoDC is built in the context of a strong digital transformation wave. This is both an opportunity and a challenge for the construction and operation team. EcoDC is launched when customers have many choices of suppliers above. data center service platform “- Mr. Nguyen Hoang Duong, Executive Vice President of EcoDC added.

This is the first data center in Vietnam that meets Uptime Tier 3 standards in both design (TCCD) and construction and operation (TCCF).

Uptime Tier 3 is the 3rd on the Uptime Institute’s four-tiered data center scale.

Launching ceremony of ecoDC data center. Photo: Trong Dat

To achieve this standard, a Data Center system must ensure uptime (uptime) of 99.982% or more and downtime (downtime) not more than 1.6 hours per year.

In addition, this system must be capable of redundancy to still be able to operate if the power is lost for up to 72 consecutive hours.

To meet the strict standards of Uptime Institute, ecoDC uses 100% of infrastructure equipment from two strategic partners, Delta and Arista.

Besides, this Data Center also uses an inrow cooling system. This is an energy saving technology for the first time deployed in Vietnam with the ability to control the cooling temperature to each server.

This system includes air conditioning running along the rack with hot air intake assist. Thanks to that, ecoDC can increase cooling efficiency and reduce power consumption.

Vietnam has the first data center with 2 Uptime Tier 3 standards. Photo: Trong Dat

Vietnam currently has a total of 5 Data Center systems meeting Uptime Tier 3 standards. However, these systems only meet Uptime Tier 3 standard in terms of design.

This data center costs the developer about 100 billion VND. Currently, the system has been completed with 6 PODs (box-type data centers) with a total of 150 racks (network cabinets). EcoDC will officially launch and start operating from April 2021.

Sharing at this event, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Huy Dung said that the ecoDC data center meeting both Uptime Tier 3 standards in design and operation is a serious work result of HTC-ITC. This will also be a solid step in the process of transforming the number of countries.

According to Deputy Minister Nguyen Huy Dung, in order to have a lasting and strong development, enterprises must associate their mission with the national one.

Vietnam is implementing digital transformation, moving all activities from real space to cyberspace, from real to digital environment.

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Huy Dung. Photo: Trong Dat

In the National Digital Transformation program, the Ministry of Information and Communications determined that Vietnam must develop digital infrastructure, including broadband telecommunications infrastructure, cloud computing, electronic identification and authentication. Vietnam is also realizing the vision that each citizen has a smartphone, each household has an Internet fiber optic cable connection.

The most fundamental difference between telecom and digital infrastructure is data centers and cloud computing platforms that make IT a service accessible to everyone.

In that process, businesses need to receive the mission that is in sync with the country’s mission.

Deputy Minister Nguyen Huy Dung suggested, as an enterprise providing basic infrastructure, HTC-ITC should soon work with functional units of the Ministry of Information and Communications to meet the technical requirements set forth for the ensure network operation and safety.

As a platform provider, HTC-ITC assumes the mission of being a “giant shoulder” for small and medium enterprises and for the Vietnamese digital transformation process.