Push Mail Service for Mobile Phones Launched in Vietnam
Viettel Telecom on July 22 launched its push mail service named I-Mail for mobile subscribers, the first service of this kind in Vietnam.
After registering to use this service, mobile subscribers will receive emails in form of MMS. They can reply to the mails on their cell phones.
The I-Mail service is available for almost all models of cell phones which have GPRS and MMS support.
To use this service, users have to pay a VND15,000 monthly subscription fee and VND500 for each outgoing mail. Customers can receive unrestricted numbers of emails and don&rsquot have to pay GPRS ges for receiving or sing emails. [US$1=around VND17,000]
Users will be exempted from monthly subscription ges for July and August 2008.
Viettel is now one of the three biggest mobile networks in Vietnam. The network operator now reports 19.42 million subscribers. It is followed by MobiFone with over 13.4 million, VinaPhone 12.1 million and 3.14 million for S-Fone.
Currently, there are seven mobile operators in Vietnam-MobiFone, VinaPhone, Viettel, S-Fone, HT Mobile, EVN Telecom, and new entrant GTel. (VietNamNet)
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