Mobile service providers ready for Tết rush

February 10, 2018 - 09:00

Leading mobile phone service providers Viettel and MobiFone have said they are ready to cope with the expected rush during the Lunar New Year.

Viettel’s global technical control centre. — VNS Photo

Viet Nam News

HCM CITY — Leading mobile phone service providers Viettel and MobiFone have said they are ready to cope with the expected rush during the Lunar New Year.

The military-owned Viettel, which has been offering 4G services for 10 months, has over 37,000 base transceiver stations (BTS) covering rural, mountainous, and remote areas and islands.

To prepare for 300 places that will set off fireworks on New Year’s Eve, Viettel has installed new BTSs and readied hundreds of mobile BTSs on trucks. It has also installed 220 wifi routers in crowded places like central areas in cities and railway and bus stations.

Thousands of Viettel staff will be stationed to cope with problems.

MobiFone has already expanded its core system capacity to 50 million messages per hour.

It has increased internet capacity by 200 Gbps, 80 per cent up from 2016, for big data services.

Its customer service at 1090 will support customers all day during Tết. — VNS

Tags Vietnam news Vietnam newsmobile service

Transition to sustainability an urgent task: policymakers

Economy

Việt Nam needs $14 billion to develop EV charging stations

Economy

Incentive mechanisms needed for semiconductor industry: PM

Economy

Hà Nội honours 36 key industrial products

Economy

CPTPP, UKVFTA to boost UK – Việt Nam trade relations

Economy

EVN signs contract for national grid power supply project for Côn Đảo

More on this story

Economy

Many tech firms to expand IT teams

Many tech firms this year are expected to add up to 10-50 per cent more employees to their IT teams as prospects for the country’s IT industry are bright, according to recruitment companies.

Economy

VNA operates Taiwan-CầnThơ flights

Vietnam Airlines will start operating direct flights from Taiwan to CầnThơ and vice versa, said Nguyễn Phúc Điền, head of Vietnam Airlines’ branch in CầnThơ, on Thursday.

Economy

Petrol price stabilisation fund balance surges to more than VNĐ5.1 trillion

The balance of the petrol price stabilisation fund surged to more than VNĐ5.1 trillion (US$ 224 million) at the end of the fourth quarter of 2017, the Ministry of Finance has reported.

Economy

Vietcombank sign agreement to provide converting bank service

Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Việt Nam (Vietcombank) and NghiSơn Petrochemical and Refinery LLC (NSRP) on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on converting bank service.

Economy

Tax departments collect $4.4b in January

Tax collection to the State budget was estimated at VNĐ99.5 trillion (US$4.4 billion) in January, according to a report by the General Department of Taxation.

Economy

Head State capital manager named

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc signed a decision on Thursday to appoint Nguyễn Hoàng Anh to the post of chairman of the special committee to manage State capital at enterprises.

Economy

SeABank general director resigns

Nguyễn Cảnh Vinh stopped assuming the position of general director of Southeast Asia Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SeABank) from February 8.

Economy

VNDirect to sell 50.3mn shares

The State Securities Commission has granted registration certificate on public offering of shares to VNDirect Securities Corporation (VND).

Economy

MM Mega Market Vietnam to stock VNĐ3 trillion worth of Tết goods

Wholesaler MM Mega Market Vietnam has unveiled plans to stock VND3 trillion worth of merchandise during Tết to meet customers’ demands for the 2018 Lunar New Year.