Beeline gets down to business

Beeline wants to become one of top network providers in Vietnam by rolling out ambitious investment plans. The Vietnam-based mobile service provider has just become a sponsor of well-known England-based Manchester United football team for the 2011-2012 soccer season. Each year Beeline will have to pay the Reds around $3 million within the three year [...]

Cell phone sector enjoys $1.43 bln trade surplus

Vietnam’s mobile phone exports enjoy a $1.43 billion trade surplus for the first seven months of this year, according to the General Customs Department. Exports of mobile phones and spare parts earned $2.59 billion, three times higher over the same period last year, while imports stand at $1.16 billion, data from the customs department shows. [...]

Telecom operators hesitant in providing 4G services

Eight million 3G subscribers have not yet brought in expected revenues while the investment capital has totaled at 33 trillion dong. After two years of being launched, telecom operators admitted 3G was a costly game. If continuing to invest in 4G technology, they may fall into a trap any time. According to data of Ministry [...]

Super promotional simcards flooding market

With only 30,000 dong, customers are able to make free call inside the network in total duration of less than 10 minutes within the whole month. The promotion package is paid much attention by many users. But as buying this kind of package, consumers have to accept “dead” simcards at any time [simcards may stop [...]

Telecom firms focusing on upgrading quality, holding existing customers

Number of new subscribers is decreasing but mobile service providers say more importance is to focus on upgrading quality and holding existing customers, the local newswire VnExpress reported. Since the year early, the number of new subscribers of three networks namely VinaPhone, MobiFone and Viettel all have fallen sharply. Previously the number increased 130,000 new [...]

Mobile-to-landline connection fees to rise

The Ministry of Information and Communications has decided to increase connection fees for calls made from mobiles to landline telephones, from VND270 per minute to VND415 per minute as of October 1. The increase is a solution to partly help fixed telephone networks develop and minimise losses for fixed telephone service providers, according to Bui [...]

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