Vietnam lowers mobile phone charges close to cost price (Vietnam)Vietnam’s big mobile operators MobiFone, VinaPhone, Viettel and S-Phone will be offering promotional sercvice packages. These packages will be avilable from now till end of September’08.
MobiFone named it “Colleague connection” package, in which phone charges are reduced by 30-50% for groups of 5-30 callers. Viettel has VPN package with a charge reduction of 40-50%. VinaPhone and S-Fone also offer packages with charge reductions of 20-40%.
According to the Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Le Nam Thang, the mobile charges, which have been falling by 15-20% per year on average, are close to the cost price.
In Vietnam, at present, 60% of the population are phone subscribers, and 90% of those are mobile subscribers. The number of mobile subscribers rises by 15-20 million a year.
