The group won gold for Viettel Financial Inclusion Bankplus Service in the category for Asia-Pacific. The two bronzes were for Viettel Antispam v2.0 and Viettel Billing & Customer Care System v2.0 in the category of IT Products and Services for Telecommunications. Viettel Deputy Director General Tong Viet Trung said the recognitions help reinforce the human-centred development orientation of the group. 

As of March 2016, the number of subcribers of the Viettel Bankplus service reached 2.8 million, with nearly 4 million transactions, worth US$145 million, made a month. 

For the first half this year, the Anti-spam service has helped block over 93.5 million spam text messages, or 550,000 messages per day. The IT World Awards, organised by the US-based Network Product Guide, aims to honour outstanding names in the ICT sector, along with such internationally well-known names as Samsung, Dell, Cisco and Foxit Softward. Network Product Guide is published targeting technology enterprises in Silicon Valley in California, the US. It has a great influence on the IT selection among business leaders as well as end-users.