Amazon Aims to Offer Low Orbit Satellite Services in Vietnam (1)

Amazon says it has formed Amazon Kuiper Vietnam and applied for local approval to provide low-orbit satellite telecommunications services in the country, according to a posting on the website of the Southeast Asian nation’s communist party.

• Amazon commits to invest $570 million to develop infrastructure including 6 ground stations by 2030 and to manufacture some equipment through partners in Bac Ninh province
• Post cites Gonzalo de Dios, company’s head of licensing and international regulatory affairs for project Kuiper in a meeting with Vietnamese deputy technology minister Pham Duc Long
• Deputy minister orders officials to work with representatives of project Kuiper ...