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 [...]
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 [...]
NTT Docomo INT (Docomo), Japan’s largest telecom service provider on August 10 announced that it has acquired a stake of 25 per cent in the VMG Media Joint Stock Company of Vietnam to expand the firm’s services in the Asian Pacific region. The stake, worth approximately VND370 billion (about 1.4 billion JPY), represents Docomo’s first [...]
Domestic mobile service providers are seeking ways to expand abroad as the local phone market becomes saturated, say market watchers. By 2020, the miitary-run mobile provider Viettel expects to provide services to around a billion people with revenue from foreign markets five times greater than domestic revenues. In 2010, its total revenue from investments abroad [...]
The General Statistics Office reported that the number of new phone subscribers reached 5.7 million in the first seven months throughout the country, a decrease of 30.9 per cent over the same period last year. There were 36,400 fixed telephone subscribers and nearly 5.7 million mobile phone subscribers. By late July, the number of phone [...]
The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) is collecting users’ opinions on how to efficiently utilise the current mobile phone number repository. Director of the Department of Telecommunications Pham Hong Hai announced at a briefing this week that the ministry was looking into two possibilities to increase available permutations. The first choice was to add [...]
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