Ministry of information and Communications back the time off waves 2G more a month, in the context of more than 3 million subscribers hasn't changed equipment.
Dark 13/9, Ministry of information and Communications issued circular no. 10 on the condenser effect some of the content of the circular no. 03 and 04, related to the planning of the frequency bands used in 2G network in Vietnam.
Two circular 03 and 04 was issued January 5, in which terms does not provide services for the terminal subscribers only supports standard GSM, news, equipment, 2G Only, from the date of 16/9, except in the case of providing services in the area of the spratly islands, Paracel islands, the truss DK or for the equipment M2M.
With the circular no. 10 latest, the enforcement of the above terms will switch to 15/10. After that time, if no change, the network will stop providing our services to 2G. Users should upgrade to the device from 3G and above to continue to use.
Fact, promoting people to switch device from 2G to 4G was made many months ago, from the telephone support for up to off waves in some areas. At the afternoon session 13/10, representatives of Department of Telecom said in two months 7 and 8, more than 5 million subscribers has transformed, lowering the number of subscription only use 2G 3.4 million to 8/9.
However, the storm Yagi landed in Vietnam, that process is affected when the people and the telecommunications business to focus remedial. Besides, the conversion of a large amount of subscribers in a short time also led to a shortage of millions of devices. In many places, people have trouble buying 4G phones cheap due to it's dry.
Of the 3.4 million subscriber rest, many belonging to the group of weak people, the family difficulty, in the difficult access, such as remote areas, mountainous. In addition, many subscribers are located in areas affected by floods and storms, making it difficult for the contact, direct contact with the customer to convert.
The telecommunications business 10/9 had proposed back the time made circular 03 and 04 to have more time to prepare more mobile devices, 4G has button for users.
The stop 2G technology is reviews bring a lot of value in Viet Nam. People are driven approach 4G devices can access the Internet from that familiar with service number, public services online. Meanwhile, the network reduced the burden on infrastructure, there are more resources and frequency to develop new network technologies such as 5G, 6G.
Source: vnexpress.net