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Vietnam determinedly eliminating junk SIM cards to address fraudulence
Cyber criminals increasingly use junk SIM cards to trick people and appropriating money. This has reached an alarming level and required strict handling from the authorities.
No photo, no phone: Customers may lose service
VietNamNet Bridge – Mobile subscribers may have their SIM cards deactivated if they fail to submit profile photos following a new regulation.
Hanoi to inspect SIM card stores
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi Department of Information and Communications has set up inter-sector inspection teams to supervise the management of pre-paid SIM cards in the city from November 29 to December 31,
Clamp down on pre-activated SIMs
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has ordered mobile network providers to intensify the confiscation of pre-activated SIM cards in order to reduce spam text messages.
Vietnamese businessman buys SIM for nearly US$500,000
VietNamNet Bridge – A Saigon man has bought an SIM card from the owner of a gold shop in the northern province of Thai Binh at the cost of up to VND9.9 billion (nearly $500,000).
People line up to get wealth SIM cards of cellphones
VietNamNet Bridge – People queued up for lucky mobile-phone SIM cards from local telecoms company Vinaphone in the north and the south of Vietnam on March 7.
MIC’s new regulation could create more SMS spam
VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) plans to loosen control over mobile subscribers, thus raising concern about an increase in spam messages.
Hanoi calls on telecom firms to block spammers
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi department of information and communications called on telecom network providers to do more to block spam messages.
Hanoi wants spammers blocked
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi Department of Information and Communications called on telecom network providers to do more to block spam messages.
Criminals target smartphone users
VietNamNet Bridge – Hi-tech crime is on the rise, causing losses for individuals and organisations.
MobiFone to recall 200,000 idle SIM cards
VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's oldest mobile network operator, MobiFone, will recall nearly 200,000 SIM cards that were issued and allocated to dealers, but were not activated for the past two years.
Mobile service providers use tricks to increase profits
VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese mobile service providers have integrated their content applications with sim cards without revealing their activities to customers.
Vendors fined for SIM blunders
VietNamNet Bridge – The Inspectorate of the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) discovered mistakes in billing customers for prepaid SIMcards, fining selling locations nearly VND2 billion in 2013.
Growth in mobile subscriber number stagnant
VietNamNet Bridge – There had been 143 million mobile subscribers in Vietnam as of end-May, 1.5 times higher than the country’s population, but the growth in the number of subscribers has markedly slowed down,
Telecoms industry to experience shake up
VietNamNet Bridge – Telecommunications companies will be restructured this year to ensure that there are only three or four healthy companies in the market.
