Internet users in Vietnam exceed 31 mln

By the end of July Vietnam has 31.1 million internet users, up 24 percent, and four million broadband internet subscribers, up 19 percent, year-on-year, according to the Vietnamese General Statistics Office (GSO) on Friday. The country has about 128.1 million telephone subscribers, a year-on-year increase of 4.3 percent, of which there are 15.5 million fixed telephone subscribers, up 0.4 percent, and 112.6 million mobile phone subscribers, up 4.8 percent. A latest report by Nielsen global insights and measurement company said about 41 percent of Vietnamese internet users have accessed the internet from mobile phones, 96 percent have visited a social networking site, and 81 percent use social media as a resource in purchase decisions. Vietnam's population was about 87 million by the end of 2010.