Viettel reduces roaming charge in Laos, Cambodia

(KPL) Viettel’s subscribers who use Unitel in Laos and Metfone in Cambodia will be offered a 60 percent discount to 0.10 USD per minute when using roaming services.

According to VNA, the roaming service allows Viettel’s subscribers to use their own mobile phone number with services such as SMS, GPRS, EDGE and EG Data in foreign countries.

Under this policy, Viettel’s roaming subscribers using Unitel and Metfone will enjoy a 70 percent lower charge. The reduction is also its next step in improving the preferential roaming charge policy in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

Hoang Son, director of Viettel Telecom, said that with its investment expansion to Haiti, Mozambique, Myanmar and African countries, Viettel’s roaming subscribers within Viettel’s networks would continue to enjoy more benefits in the future.

After nine months of operation, Viettel’s subscribers have so far roamed to 305 mobile networks of 118 countries and territories worldwide. In addition to phone and SMS service, Viettel's roaming subscribers can use GPRS to 160 networks of 83 countries and 3G service to 87 networks of 59 countries. Particularly, roaming users also receive incoming SMS free of charge.

Viettel is Vietnam’s only service provider to allow prepaid roaming subscribers to make phone calls and send SMS and vice versa to 33 networks of 29 countries and territories.

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