Foxconn’s rush expansion in Vietnam raise nosy that whether Apple will choose the country as the place to build nest.

Analysts began issuing warnings about the saturation of the mobile phone market several years ago. However, mobile phone distributors are still thriving.

Dozens of Vietnamese mobile phone brands once existed in the domestic market, but now only a few brands remain.

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) on March 2 announced a program on popularizing smartphones to 100 percent of the population.

With a huge numbers of users, mobile network operators are tapping the financial service market, the major field of fintechs.

Samsung has affirmed that it will continue us to choose Vietnam as its biggest production base, from which Samsung’s mobile phones will go to the world market.

The HCMC People’s Committee believes that mobile phones must bear a luxury tax or special consumption tax (SCT) as it is called in Vietnam.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications has urged local mobile phone service providers to draw up contingency plans to cope with network jamming during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, better known as Tet in Vietnam.

 Microsoft has completed its purchase of Nokia's mobile phone business for 5.44bn euros ($7.5bn; £4.5bn).

 The National Security Agency is collecting billions of records on the location of mobile phones around the world, The Washington Post reported, citing documents from US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.

VietNamNet Bridge – Most local mobile phone services providers are using products of Chinese equipment manufacturers Huwei and ZTE that have caused the United States and Europe to worry about information security.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communication has decided to amend a series of policies to drive the mobile service market to a more sustainable development.

 Worldwide mobile phone market is expected to grow only 1.4 percent year over year in 2012, the lowest annual growth rate in three years, research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) predicted in a report on Tuesday.