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The Military Telecom Joint Stock Company (Viettel) has put on the market a prepaid mobile package, designed with foreign tourists in mind, called Tourist Sim.
Users of Tourist Sim, the first of its kind in Vietnam, will get free-of-charge information on services, beauty spots, hotel addresses, taxi firms, foreign exchange rates and the weather forecast.
Tourist can purchase the package for US$5 or US$10. It offers international calls at VND 3,240 (US$0.18) per minute and an international SMS message at VND 2,160 (US$0.12), 10 percent and 13.6 percent cheaper than the fees charged by other packages, respectively.
Viettel Vice Director Nguyen Viet Dung said that Vietnam welcomes around 4 million foreign visitors each year and that telecom is an essential service for them during their stay in the country. “That is why Viettel provides this service,” he said, adding that Tourist Sim are sold at airports, tourist sites, hotels and resorts.
Viettel is now one of the country’s biggest mobile service providers with more than 30 million subscribers after eight years of operation.In 2008, Viettel was ranked 83rd among the world’s 100 leading telecom providers by Informa Telecoms and Media.
It is also the first Vietnamese telecoms firm that has provided its services abroad. It is currently working on two other projects to set up a Voice Over the Internet Protocol (VoIP) service and mobile telephone networks in Laos and Cambodia.
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