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VNPT to slash roaming service charges

Charges for automatic calls in standard rate will be US$ 0.054 and US$ 0.060 for the first six-second block, US$ 0.009 and US$ 0.010 for the following seconds, depending o­n call destination.

Hanoi Times – The Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) has decided to cut charges o­n roaming service used by foreigners in Vietnam using Vinaphone and MobiFone networks as of November 1, 2007.

Charges for automatic calls in standard rate will be US$ 0.054 and US$ 0.060 for the first six-second block, US$ 0.009 and US$ 0.010 for the following seconds, depending o­n call destination.

The charges for calls made in economic rate is US$ 0.042 for the first six-second block and US$ 0.007 for each following second.

The calls that need assistance of operators will have similar charges for normal houses. If subscribers use “person call” service, the charges will be US$ 1.040 and US$ 1.10 for the first minute and it will be US$ 0.702 and US$ 0.780 for the first minute of “station call” service. The same charges are applied for the following minutes of the two above services: US$ 0.540 and US$ 0.60.

For calls registered through international switchboard in economic rate, the charge for the first minute will be US$ 0.92 for the “person call” service and US$ 0.546 for “station call” service. The charge for subsequent minutes is US$ 0.42 for both services.

Standard rate is applied for calls made between 6 am and 11 pm from Monday to Saturday and the economic rate is applied for calls made from 11 pm to 6 am from Monday to Saturday, holidays and Sunday. The above charges don’t include VAT.

Subscribers of VinaPhone and MobiFone can make calls to 241 countries and territories.

 

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