The Vinasat-2 was launched into orbit at 22.13 GMT on May 15 from Kourou (French Guyana, South America). Witnessing the launching of the Vietnam’s second satellite, Vinasat-2 from the VNPT headquarter in Hanoi early this morning were Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Deputy Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son and leaders from relevant agencies.

According to the statistics from the General Office of Statistics, four months’ number of new telephone subscribers was at an estimation of 3.5 million, rose 20% from last year’ same period, including 10.2 thousand fixed telephone subscribers and  the mobile ones represented the remainder.