MobiFone and FPT develop digital transformation alliance

MobiFone Telecommunication Corporation and FPT Corporation signed a strategic co-operation agreement on October 2^nd to enhance business efficiency, taking advantage of the technologies of both sides, contributing to the digital transformation of the country.

MobiFone and FPT will strengthen extensive and comprehensive cooperation in three areas: Telecommunications, Information Technology and Retail Trade in order to offer customers products and services with outstanding quality and a superior experience. In particular, in the context of the volatile market, the cooperation between the two corps affirms the efforts of Vietnamese enterprises to join the alliance for recovery, breakthroughs, sustainable development, contributing to promoting the national socio-economic development.

Accordingly, in the information technology field, the two sides are expected to cooperate in building solutions and software for organizations, businesses and individuals; developing technology products, services and solutions on the basis of integrating their existing solutions besides cross-selling them.

In particular, the two sides will jointly develop technology value added services such as financial fraud checking, customer data analysis and credit scoring system in banking and finance considered as the "lifeblood" of the economy.

FPT will provide Made by FPT DX tools and solutions to help MobiFone optimize its operations such as eKYC - online customer identity verification, Chatbot, akaChain - the blockchain for business platform, akaLink - an employee engagement platform, akaBot - Automate processes and operations using RPA technology etc.

In the field of telecommunications, it is expected that MobiFone and FPT will find opportunities for cooperation and investment in submarine fiber optic cables in the future; as well as Data Center, Cloud, VAS services on FPT platform. MobiFone provides FPT mBiz360 - a consumer management solution for enterprises, Mobile Money.

In the retail trade, MobiFone plans to build MobiFone full service corners in FPT Shop system, helping bring products and services closer to customers. Also within the framework of the cooperation, the representatives of MobiFone and FPT Retail signed a cooperation agreement to deploy co-branded sims named MobiFone - FPT Shop, which are distributed at FPT Shop nationwide. Customers who purchase a co-branded sim will receive special offers when shopping at FPT Shop.

Speaking at the event, MobiFone CEO To Manh Cuong said: “The cooperation agreement affirms the traditional cooperation relationship, a long-standing strategic partnership between MobiFone and FPT. This cooperation opens up for the two sides to more development opportunities in the new phase, as well as bringing benefits to both sides' customers. As MobiFone and FPT join Vietnam's Digital Transformation Alliance, the cooperation is expected to strongly promote the digital transformation trend, for the development of digital society, digital economy, and digital country".

“Being the leading technology company with more than 32 years of experience in consulting and successfully implementing large technology projects in many fields namely healthcare, education, finance and banking, e-government etc., a diversified ecosystem of technology products/solutions, FPT Corporation believes that close cooperation with MobiFone will promote the strengths of the parties, significantly contributing to the development of MobiFone and more effectively serving individual customers, organizations and businesses," stated FPT CEO Nguyen Van Khoa.

Earlier, in the middle of May 2020, MobiFone chose FPT as a partner to implement two important projects in the digital transformation strategy including "Upgrading the billing and customer management system" and "Upgrading centralized charge cross-check system ".