Domestic telecom providers face new challengesThe number of mobile phone subscriptions nationwide stood at about 127 million at the end of 2017, down 2.1 percent year-on-year. The decrease came as telecom providers withdrew unregistered SIM cards as directed by the Ministry of Information and Communications. Apart from opportunities, 2018 is forecast to pose challenges to the domestic telecom providers’ efforts to maintain their market shares and achieve their goals in revenue and development. The fourth industrial revolution, which comes with new notions like cloud computing, internet of things, artificial intelligence and big data, will also generate challenges for Vietnamese telecom suppliers, they said. The experts, therefore, suggested telecom providers create innovation and update technologies to use the opportunities offered by the revolution.-VNA