MobiFone apologizes, offers compensation for hour-long service disruption
Economy 16:46 05/01/2023MobiFone has apologized to customers and offered compensation such as free data and calls
Vietnamese telcos announce $435mn relief package for service users
Vietnam News 14:24 03/08/2021The package is intended to benefit service users affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
Mobifone launches free 5G service at store in downtown Ho Chi Minh City
Economy 17:28 18/12/2020Subscribers can access the Vietnamese operator’s 5G network at 80 Nguyen Du Street in District 1
Vietnamese telcos granted permission to test commercial 5G in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City
Economy 17:45 01/11/2020These test rounds will provide the telcos with market insights before official 5G commercialization
Vietnam’s MobiFone suffers mobile network disruption
Economy 12:01 30/09/2020Both data and voice connectivity on 3G and 4G networks were disrupted
Vietnam fines 4 major MNOs over illegally registered SIM cards
Economy 17:33 05/06/2020Inspectors discovered a firm having pre-registered up to 88,637 SIM cards
Hanoi court upholds life sentence for ex-minister in scandalous MobiFone-AVG deal
Vietnam News 15:15 28/04/2020Nguyen Bac Son, former communications minister, was previously sentenced to life in prison for receiving US$3 million in bribes
Vietnam court sentences ex-minister to life in scandalous MobiFone-AVG deal
Vietnam News 13:23 28/12/2019The former minister avoided a death penalty thanks to several mitigating circumstances
Two former Vietnamese ministers prosecuted in scandalous acquisition deal
Vietnam News 18:14 19/10/2019They are indicted for violating regulations on public capital management and receiving bribes
Vietnam's ex-communication minister receives $3mn bribe in scandalous AVG-MobiFone deal
Vietnam News 11:05 03/09/2019Police on Monday indicted Nguyen Bac Son, Minster of Information and Communications for the 2011-16 tenure
Vietnam’s former minister of investment reprimanded for involvement in $391mn acquisition deal
Vietnam News 11:26 28/11/2018He was disciplined for his role in the now-aborted deal where Mobifone tried to buy a 95 percent stake in AVG
Vietnam arrests two more officials of state-run MobiFone in graft crackdown
Vietnam News 14:34 14/11/2018Both are accused of 'violating regulations on the management and use of state capital'
