Viettel slashes roaming rate to meet increasing travel demand during the National Day Holiday. — VNS Photo Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Viettel Telecom has announced plans to slash its roaming rate up to 80 per cent for calls, texts and data for its subscribers to five Asian countries during Việt Nam’s National Day to meet the increasing travel demand. The fee reduction applies two data packages in five countries including Japan, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia, which are in the top 20 most favourite destinations voted on by Vietnamese people in 2017. The packages will be applied from August 28 and used within 10 to 15 days. Accordingly, customers can have 1GB data used for 15 days in South Korea, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia when registering for the DR500 package for VNĐ500,000. The DR350 package is applied for 500MD data over 10 days roaming in Japan. Subscribers can send a message to 191 or download the Viettel Roaming … [Read more...] about Viettel reduces roaming rate for National Day
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Viettel rewards customers and supports students
Scholarships given to needy students in Dak Lak province The program was to pay tribute to its subscribers and encourage them to continue using Viettel’s services. Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy Director of Viettel Hanoi Nguyen Cong Binh thanked Viettel mobile subscribers and hoped that there would be more attractive programs for them in the time to come. * On August 30, Viettel’s branch in Dak Lak province (Viettel Dak Lak) offered 460 scholarships to disadvantaged primary and secondary students with outstanding academic records, in order to encourage them in their study. From 2014 to 2017, the branch granted "For studious children” scholarships, worth nearly VND 1.8 billion, to 1,780 poor students in the locality. Translated by Song Anh … [Read more...] about Viettel rewards customers and supports students
Viettel Hanoi honors outstanding students
In the past academic year, 120 students, who are children of Viettel Hanoi branch’s staff, were rated as “excellent.” Senior Colonel Phan Giang Chau (C), Vice-Director of Viettel Hanoi, presenting gifts to outstanding children with good study results The program annually held by Viettel Hanoi aims to honor outstanding students so as to encourage them to achieve good results at school, and then become good citizens, contributing to the national development. Speaking at the event, Senior Colonel Chau, Deputy Director of Viettel Hanoi, acknowledged the children’s academic records in the past and encouraged them to continue promoting their academic results and serve as a driving force for their parents to work at the firm. Translated by Minh Anh … [Read more...] about Viettel Hanoi honors outstanding students
Vietnam telecom firm Viettel eyes Philippine market
The company said on Thursday, as the archipelago’s economy clears the way for the entry of a third operator. Fixing the Philippines’ notoriously patchy and expensive telecom services was a campaign promise of populist President Rodrigo Duterte, who had said late last year that a third player would join the market and end the duopoly of PLDT Inc and Globe Telecom Inc, which have a combined market capital of about $10.7 billion. “Viettel is interested in the third license on telecommunications in this market,” the military-run Viettel Group, Vietnam’s largest mobile carrier by subscription numbers, told Reuters in an emailed statement. “Viettel will thoroughly consider participating in case the conditions of the bidding documents are in line with the strategy of Viettel.” The Philippines’ Department of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) issued draft rules this month on the entry of a third player, which require foreigners to … [Read more...] about Vietnam telecom firm Viettel eyes Philippine market
Viettel ready to switch its 11-digit subscribers to 10-digit ones
Viettel has successfully piloted the switch since the beginning of August before the official switch on upcoming September 15. Photo: thanhnien.vn Viettel has to switch about 43 million mobile phone subscribers with their 11-digit numbers to 10-digit ones this time. In order to minimize the impact of the switch on existing subscribers, Viettel has successfully piloted the switch since the beginning of August before the official switch on upcoming September 15. It has also successfully conducted calls from the switched subscribers to telephone numbers of other service providers. Viettel has by now completed different plans for the switch, including communications plans, prior to the official date of implementation from September 15 as regulated by the Ministry of Information and Communications. Accordingly, the Viettel will have to conduct the switch in two phases for 8 strings of subscribers from 0162 to 0169. It will also support subscribers to update their phone contacts by the … [Read more...] about Viettel ready to switch its 11-digit subscribers to 10-digit ones