China's biggest telecommunications equipment provider Huawei, together with a Vietnamese firm, Friday granted equipment using code division multiple access (CDMA) technology and phone fees worth 100,000 U.S. dollars to Vietnam's flood-hit central Quang Nam province.

Addressing at the granting ceremony in Quang Nam, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Huu Hao said the assistance of Huawei and the EVN Telecom, a subsidiary of the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), the country's biggest electricity producer and sole distributor, will help boost the development of Vietnam's rural areas.

Flooding has frequently hit Vietnam's central region, including Quang Nam, since October, destroying fixed telephone networks and disrupting communications of people in some areas.

EVN Telecom is Vietnam's biggest operator providing CDMA 450 network, which is suitable to provide telecommunications service in rural, remote and coastal areas, because of its wide coverage and low network installation cost.

Huawei, accounting for 70 percent of the global market share in CDMA 450 related equipments, has infiltrated in Vietnam since 2001. Now, it is one of the three biggest telecommunications equipment providers in Vietnam.

(Xinhua News Agency December 1, 2007)