Mobile phones and ADSL Internet in Vietnam

Without cellular, the easiest ways for calling are the Post Offices, in most cities of Vietnam, and the phones placed in some shops. They are quite easy to find provided that you know how to recognize them.

Phone booths can be found only in the biggest cities near the tourist areas. To use them, you will need to buy a prepaid card available in the Post Offices.

Cell Phones

You can use your own cell phone if you come from a European, Asian country or Australia (GSM 900/1800). If it isn’t yet unlocked, it’s going to be easy to do it here. For those who come from USA or Japan, you will need to buy a new cell phone.

Three telecom companies are sharing the market, Vinaphone, Mobiphone and Viettel. They propose prepaid cards and pay as you call solutions (You receive a bill at the end of the month). But whatever solution you pick, you will need to get a SIM card (your telephone number), about 300.000 VND.

Cell phone shops can be found very easily everywhere in Vietnam, even in the most remote part of the country.

Internet

The internet is everywhere, Vietnamese people adopted it massively. E-mailing and chat gather several thousands of people in the Internet Cafes now equiped with ADSL, which is convenient when we use vocal chat and webcam. Using the internet in Vietnam is cheap, about 3000-4000 dong / hour depending on the place where you go.

Internet at home

You can subscribe for Internet to VNN, FPT, VNPT, OCI, HANOITELECOM, NETNAM, SPT or VIETEL companies.

Example of price (average) for an ADSL subscription with VNN company.

(Download/Upload) là 384Kbps/128Kbps : 26 USD / M

(Download/Upload) là 512Kbps/256Kbps : 40 USD / M

(Download/Upload) 1Mbps/512Kbps: 50 USD / M

(Download/Upload) 2Mbps/640Kbps : 68 USD / M

You can also purchase Internet prepaid cards with a value from 100.000 to 300.000 dongs (FPT) or from 50.000 to 500.000 dong (VDC/VNN). With these cards, no subscription is required.

To call abroad

You can call abroad to fixed or cell phones via internet with special internet prepaid cards. Quality is quite good taking into account the very low fares for this service. Try cards like evoiz or ring-voiz...