But the government worries about the efforts of Vietnamese expatriates to use Web sites to foment unrest. According to the Vietnamese Business Journal , the potential early market is no bigger than 10,000 subscribers, mostly business people.
Scholars are also reportedly interested in the Internet.
Vietnam's version of the Internet is an intranet service accessible through the telephone system on Internet protocol. The service will charge users for individual items retrieved or on a monthly subscription basis. The authorities, concerned about the spread of negative influences from outside on its population, have delayed full access to the Internet and the address for the site was not announced.