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The public Internet business movement started about 5 years ago and flourished across the country within the last 2-3 years. But at this point, when the Internet becomes popular in every office and family, it seems that the public Internet agent is going into regression.

Mr. Bac who just started opening an Internet shop on Nguyen Hong Street - Hanoi in late 2005 admitted that "doing Net" now does not eat anymore, time is up. Net shops are going into regression: one is unable to stand up and sell machines; the second is not to invest more, try to collect more on the invested infrastructure.

Net out of date

At the end of 2005, Mr. Bac invested about 45 million to open Net room with 15 old machines bought back. But he had trouble getting into this business too late, when the Net shops began to enter a recession. Now, every day, the amount of medicine and access charge is only about 200 thousand.

With this rate, it is good to just ask for no losses every month. But entangled in here like "little girl", now give up a pile of money and continue to work extremely hard, Mr. Bac complained.

A Net shop was absent in Hanoi - Photo of Hoang Hung

In Hanoi, except for the areas with a large concentration of students, the Internet shops are still vibrant, and many other areas have fallen into difficult or closed businesses. The former Ho Dac Di Road area has approximately a dozen Net shops now and only 1-2 shops operate moderately. Around the building A23 - A25 Nghia Tan, before there were 6-7 Net shops but now closed almost only 1 shop still works. Not far away, Nghia Tan street used to be dense with Internet access points and record stores. Nowadays, most of them have changed jobs to food and beverage business .

The decline of the public Internet business in Hanoi has only just begun to be unclear due to the demand of the youngest class, especially the large students. Meanwhile, in other localities, the public Internet business is almost entering a regression but Hai Phong is an example. The places where there are many Net shops such as Lach Tray Street, Le Loi, Nguyen Van Linh, Hai Phong Private University . used to be busy day and night because of the Net shops, now the atmosphere has been quieter because of many times. This is closed or switched to another business.

Mr. Nguyen The Hai, owner of a Net shop in the area of ​​Hai Phong Private University (Du Hang Kenh ward, Le Chan district) said that during the Internet boom, the access price was from 6,000-7,000 VND per hour. that everyone raced business. The whole district has about 150 Internet shops, in which Du Hang Kenh ward has occupied up to 50 shops. But so far, right around my house, there are at least 5 shops closed. The remaining businesses also decreased.

According to Mr. Hai's calculation, with 20 machines, he earns about 200,000 VND a day. Except for transmission, electricity and tax, it is enough to eat. It is I have premises, manpower in the house but if I go to hire, I will "break face".

Also in the Hai Phong Private University, Mr. Hong, the owner of an Internet shop, just closed a few months ago, said that although the number of tourists near the university is more stable than in other places, the income from many agents The Internet here is just holding back, ' wanting to go bankrupt doesn't break '. He explained, did not do anymore, the loss was too much, and it continued to be impossible. After more than 1 year of business, Mr. Hong also had to decide to close and suffer losses with the current machines.

This situation can be seen in many other big cities. Vinh City, on Mai Hac De Street, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, many shops opened with large investment capital but only less than 3 years, many people decided to close because of "not losing".

If Internet access is absent, online game shops are always in a crowded state. Throughout a small road to Hai Phong Private University and Nguyen Binh Street, Ngo Quyen District - where many of the city's universities are concentrated, the gaming shops race up and close.

Here from morning to night, always close to room. The owners of these stores pointed out that, with only 2,000 VND / hour, the time for playing games is always longer than accessing the Internet to read newspapers, chit chat . so their revenue must be at least double. other public Internet agents.

However, it is not simple to want to run online game business because it requires computers to have a higher configuration, so Net shops still try to maintain rather than invest from the beginning. Some shops improve the situation by alternating both online games and regular Internet access but not very positive.

Most Internet agents are not 'qualified'.

There are many reasons for the quietness at the current Internet access points. According to business people, the subjective cause is obsolete and obsolete about machines. In addition to the fierce competition of the Net, the increase in network connection in families and agencies also contributed to a decrease in the number of visitors at public agencies.

However, the most talked about cause is still the "difference" between the management of the State and the actual business in businesses as well as agents on this issue.

' ADSL subscription does not decrease, even the demand is increasing but public Internet agents are now declining because most of them do not meet the newly promulgated regulations of the Joint Circular on management of Internet agents 02 / 2005 / TTLT / BCVT-VHTT-CA-KHĐT . ' This is the first thing that Mr. Nguyen Duc Dung, Deputy Director of Hai Phong Post Office mentioned when explaining the phenomenon of many Internet access points currently closed.

Internet owners also affirmed that they had difficulties and have not implemented some regulations such as: Setting up the service use register in which full statistics and detailed information about users and guarantors for people under 14 years of age; install an agent management software program to store information about users of the service including the visited address, access time, type of service within 30 days .

Mr. Pham Ngoc, an employee of an Internet shop in Hai Phong, said that it is impossible to control all the addresses and content that customers access. Partly because there are not enough employees, some do not want to infringe on personal information, on the other hand, because infected machines often have to reinstall, so they cannot keep long-term information. Besides, in order to prevent visitors from accidentally accessing websites with unhealthy content that people have previously entered, he often clears all addresses. But doing so is also said to violate the regulations on storing information and agents may be penalized at any time when an inspection team comes.

Mr. Pham Van Hoan, Deputy Head of the Department of Information and Communication - Hai Phong Post Office said that before Circular 02 was born, the City Post Office had about 200 Internet agency contracts. However, up to now, this number is only "scattered". The post office canceled the contract with most agents because it did not meet the requirements of the Circular on the installation of the above-mentioned agency management software programs.

Mr. Hoan explained: ' Each agent is in violation, the State agency imposes a fine, it is better that the Post Office accepts to cancel the contract in order to avoid being fined. In fact, business agents also refused to give up, they switched to subscribers. In doing so, the management of these stores is under the jurisdiction of the localities, while the post office is very much in charge of coordination! '.

Thus, although the city post office still has a policy of developing the Internet to the surrounding areas, due to the current regulations on Internet management have not kept up with the development of technology and business reality, and at the same time Loosen all of this stage has been hindering many businesses and agents who want to comply with the law.

Nguyen Nga