3G infrastructure to be shared by EVN (Vietnam)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vietnamese telecoms operator EVN Telecom has seeked Ministry of Information and Communications permission to share third-generation mobile network facilities with other wireless operators.

Sharing 3G infrastructure, by allowing national roaming on the mobile networks of its rivals, will allow EVN to cut investment costs by up to one-third.

According to Chief of EVN’s IT-Telecom department, Nguyen Thanh Lam, EVN is facing many difficulties because big networks refuse EVN’s roaming on their networks, however, they are ready for international roaming which is very irrational.

A petition has been filed by EVN to the MIC to cut connection fees for international VoIP services by 50%.