Vietnam’s Mobile Phone Charges to Fall by 30% from Next January
Vietnam’s set charge for phone calls made between different mobile networks will fall by around 30% from January 15th 2010 under a new regulation from the Ministry of Information and Communication.
Charges that a telecom network has to pay for receiving the calls made by its subscribers will reduce by around 30% depending on the market share of the phone provider.
A charge of 550 dong/minute is also applied to the direct connection between international fixed telephone networks and inner provincial fixed phone networks. The charges for calls will be paid by the subscribers of the international fixed phone network.
When an inner provincial fixed phone network is directly connected with an inter-provincial fixed phone network and a mobile network, the inter-provincial fixed phone network and the mobile network will have to pay connection fees of 270 dong per minute.
The reduction will speed up the process to narrow the gap of telecom charges between Vietnam and the world and enable telecom service providers to further slash their charges.
Vietnam now has eight mobile phone networks with more than 99 million mobile phone subscribers. (vnexpress)
Tags: Vietnam's Mobile Phone
Posted by VBN on Dec 8 2009. Filed under Telecommunication, Trade. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry
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