On August 3, Nguyen Nho Tuy, Deputy Director of VNPT Da Nang cum Director of VNPT Vinaphone Da Nang Business Centre, said that, in response to the Prime Minister's appeal for support for citizens nationwide financially affected by the ongoing COVID-19 wave, VNPT Group will reduce service fees for its customers, especially those in provinces and cities that are subject to social distancing mandates.

Accordingly, each VinaPhone subscriber who lives in a Vietnamese locality in which social distancing is in effect under the National Government Directive No. 16/CT-TTg will have 50 minutes of on-net calls every day free of charge.

For customers nationwide, VNPT offers an additional 50%-data-capacity package with unchanged price.

Beside, there is a 50% discount on VX3 and VX7 packages with the charge of VX3 reducing from VND 20,000 to VND10,000 and that of VX7 going down from VND 35,000 to VND 20,000.

Each time a VX3/VX7 service plan is successfully extended or registered, VND5,000 will be given to the National COVID-19 Vaccine Fund.

Amid the complicated development of COVID-19 VinaPhone pre-paid subscribers will still be allowed to make outbound calls whilst post-paid subscribers will be permitted to receive inbound calls in case they fail to pay their fees on time.

Also, VNPT will continue to maintain supportive moves that are being implemented such as doubling the bandwidth for all fiber-optic internet packages with the prices unchanged.

Last, but not least, free high-speed access to all the formal information portals of the Vietnamese Ministry of Health and the Bluezone app will be ensured.

The above-mentioned supportive programmes will be applied from August 5, 2021 and last for 3 months.

Reporting by TRIEU TUNG- Translating by A.T