The full download speeds (because the servers are located in Vietnam), the low service fees and simple payment methods, and the friendly interfaces are the biggest advantages of domestic data storage websites such as Megashare, Fshare, and 4share--over foreign service providers.
The full download speeds (because the servers are located in Vietnam), the low service fees and simple payment methods, and the friendly interfaces are the biggest advantages of domestic data storage websites such as Megashare, Fshare, and 4share--over foreign service providers.
Cheap and simple payment method
Cheap and simple payment method
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The 2011 NetCitizens Vietnam report released by Cimigo, a market survey firm; has pointed out that entertainment services are the second most popular things which have been done by users, just after information collection. 60 percent of Internet users downloaded music and 23 percent downloaded films.
The number of people using the Internet to download music has increased by 15 percent over the last three years, while the number of people downloading films has increased by 6 percent in comparison with 2009.
Analysts believe that the high demand for downloading films and music, Vietnam proves to be the “fertile land” for storage websites like Fshare, Megashare, 4share, Mediafire, Megaupload to develop.
However, domestic service providers have to compete fiercely with foreign providers. The content sharing services of Mediafire or Megaupload have been penetrating to Vietnam for the last 5-6 years and they have certain amounts of users. Especially, Vietnamese people tend to prefer foreign services to domestic ones.
According to Nguyen Van Khoa, Deputy General Director of FPT Telecom, which runs Fshare, the data storage website has advantages in comparison with the websites of service providers in order to successfully compete with “foreign products”.
For example, the website has the design and interface using Vietnamese language to serve Vietnamese people, and offers higher download speed because the server is located in Vietnam, which is not influenced by the international connection speed.
Besides, Khoa said that Fshare cooperates with payment service providers in Vietnam in order to create favorable conditions for the payment. “To date, Fshare has had 1.6 million users mostly in Vietnam, and tens of thousands of users in non-Vietnam territories,” Khoa said.
However, he admitted that weak points have still existed with the website, due to the limited penetration level and the limited number of people who know the services.
Sharing the same view with Khoa, Nguyen Quang Chien, in charge of Megashare service of VDC Online, also said that the full speed, the capability to download up-to-10 GB files, the low charges and simple payment methods (users can pay through Internet Banking or MobiFone, VinaPhone cards) prove to be the biggest advantages of Vietnamese data storage websites in comparison with foreign services (megaupload.com, rapidshare.com, Mediafire.com…).
Just one year after making its debut, Megashare has attracted 500,000 users and has got good feedbacks from the community about the storage service and file sharing. This explains why the access is deniable at some moments due to the overly high number of visitors.
1-2 million users is the goal
When talking about the business strategy for the time to come, Fshare plans to integrate into some applied software portals of the big communities, such as Tinhte, GSM.vn, Dâu đen Blackberry (Viet Hop – the main partner of RIM in Vietnam), Banbe.net social network, and carry out other cooperation plans, so as to allow the community, which has the demand for use, to connect easily. This can turn Fshare into the effective storage tool which can replace the familiar USB.
Khoa went on to say that Fshare hopes it can attract two million users by the end of the year, including 500,000 regular users.
Meanwhile, according to Chien, Megashare is cherishing the hope to become the biggest storage and content sharing service provider in Vietnam. “We hope to obtain one million users by the end of the year,” Chien said.
The number of people using the Internet to download music has increased by 15 percent over the last three years, while the number of people downloading films has increased by 6 percent in comparison with 2009.
Analysts believe that the high demand for downloading films and music, Vietnam proves to be the “fertile land” for storage websites like Fshare, Megashare, 4share, Mediafire, Megaupload to develop.
However, domestic service providers have to compete fiercely with foreign providers. The content sharing services of Mediafire or Megaupload have been penetrating to Vietnam for the last 5-6 years and they have certain amounts of users. Especially, Vietnamese people tend to prefer foreign services to domestic ones.
According to Nguyen Van Khoa, Deputy General Director of FPT Telecom, which runs Fshare, the data storage website has advantages in comparison with the websites of service providers in order to successfully compete with “foreign products”.
For example, the website has the design and interface using Vietnamese language to serve Vietnamese people, and offers higher download speed because the server is located in Vietnam, which is not influenced by the international connection speed.
Besides, Khoa said that Fshare cooperates with payment service providers in Vietnam in order to create favorable conditions for the payment. “To date, Fshare has had 1.6 million users mostly in Vietnam, and tens of thousands of users in non-Vietnam territories,” Khoa said.
However, he admitted that weak points have still existed with the website, due to the limited penetration level and the limited number of people who know the services.
Sharing the same view with Khoa, Nguyen Quang Chien, in charge of Megashare service of VDC Online, also said that the full speed, the capability to download up-to-10 GB files, the low charges and simple payment methods (users can pay through Internet Banking or MobiFone, VinaPhone cards) prove to be the biggest advantages of Vietnamese data storage websites in comparison with foreign services (megaupload.com, rapidshare.com, Mediafire.com…).
Just one year after making its debut, Megashare has attracted 500,000 users and has got good feedbacks from the community about the storage service and file sharing. This explains why the access is deniable at some moments due to the overly high number of visitors.
1-2 million users is the goal
When talking about the business strategy for the time to come, Fshare plans to integrate into some applied software portals of the big communities, such as Tinhte, GSM.vn, Dâu đen Blackberry (Viet Hop – the main partner of RIM in Vietnam), Banbe.net social network, and carry out other cooperation plans, so as to allow the community, which has the demand for use, to connect easily. This can turn Fshare into the effective storage tool which can replace the familiar USB.
Khoa went on to say that Fshare hopes it can attract two million users by the end of the year, including 500,000 regular users.
Meanwhile, according to Chien, Megashare is cherishing the hope to become the biggest storage and content sharing service provider in Vietnam. “We hope to obtain one million users by the end of the year,” Chien said.
(Source: Vietnamnet)
