Telecom violations to be fined up to $4,800

A new governmental decree stipulates fines of 200,000 dong to 100 million dong (US$4,800) for individuals and service providers violating telecom and other regulations.
With effect from December 1, a fine of 200,000-500,000 dong will be slapped on telecom companies for acts like providing customers with incorrect information and providing telecom services at self-service kiosks without the logos of service providers.

Anyone found damaging public telephone booths or misusing them will be slapped with a fine of 2-5 million dong.

Fines ranging from 5 million to 10 million dong will apply for not producing any of the following documents when requested by competent authorities: license for setting up a public telecom network, providing telecom services, laying undersea telecom cables, and testing telecom networks or services.

Service providers will be fined 30-50 million dong for fixing service charges well below the average market rate or below cost, or for changing phone numbers without prior approval from competent agencies.

The highest fines of 70-100 million dong will apply for providing unlicensed telecom services, illegally installing equipment for telecom services between Vietnam and foreign countries or vice versa, and not informing subscribers within a certain period about changes made to their numbers.

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Posted by VBN on Sep 23 2011. Filed under Telecommunication. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry