The programme will provide teachers, students and schools in Ho Chi Minh City with low-priced laptops accompanied with Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) services. This is part of a cooperation signed between Intel and the Ministry of Education and Training in April 2009, which aims to modernise Vietnam’s educational sector and increase the number of computer users in HCM City.

Under the programme, CMS laptops will be sold at a price that is VND800,000 lower than the market price. Targeted customers will enjoy VNPT’s broadband service package with discounts of up to 80 percent for schools and 30 percent for teachers. The discounts will be applied at VNPT’s 30 retail shops and 200 agents in the city.

On the occasion, VNPT presented two computer labs to two secondary schools in Cu Chi and Can Gio districts, each equipped with ten computers using Intel’s microprocessors.