Nationwide inspection of mobile phone subscriptions begins
Inspections aimed at preventing ‘junk’ SIM cards in the market.
Topic: mobile phone subscribers
Mobile subscriptions without correct personal information to be locked
Regulation aims to limit the number of junk SIMs in circulation.
Many smartphone subscribers not using data
According to the Department of Telecommunications at the Ministry of Information and Communications, as of July, Vietnam had 125.7 million mobile phone subscriptions. Of these, the number of active subscribers who simply use calling and messaging services stands at some 43.8 million, with only 81.8 million active mobile phone subscribers using mobile data, or about 65 per cent of total subscriptions.