Carriers are only allowed to offer a maximum of 20% discount on prepaid subscribers.

This promotion level, including the value of services, goods or material values ​​used for promotion, is one of the contents of t.Circular No. 47/2017/TT-BTTTT has just been issued.Issued by the Ministry of Information and Communications.

According to the Ministry of Information and Communications, the issuance of regulations in Circular 47 aims to ensure rights and promote the development of postpaid subscribers, limiting spam calls and spam messages.

According to the explanation of this ministry, this regulation on promotion limits is to ensure healthy competition in the market.mobile telecommunications services as well as to ensure the rights of users.

With tPrepaid subscribers switching to postpaid subscribers still enjoy a promotion rate of no more than 50%.

This new regulation is said to be based onBased on the Telecommunications Law to limit the situation where network operators compete to attract new prepaid subscribers, continuously offering "huge" promotional programs for prepaid subscribers to compete unfairly.

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Previously, according to the regulator, carriers were lax.The registration status has caused some customers to sign up for prepaid subscriptions toAdvertising messages, threats, malicious messages, scams... are still rampant.

Therefore, the above phenomena often appear in prepaid subscribers, whose identities are difficult to trace, so they need to be limited.

Meanwhile,Postpaid subscribers are a group of loyal customers who provide full information to the network operator when registering for the service but rarely enjoy promotional policies.

"In case telecommunications enterprises violate regulations on promotion limits, they will be administratively sanctioned and have to pay taxes for illegal promotion programs," emphasized a representative of the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Before this regulation, network operators competed to apply promotional packages of up to 50%, 100% of service value.

Most recently, the state management agency had to blow the whistle and ask the three major network operators, Viettel, Mobifone and Vinaphone, to stop the super promotional package for subscribers accessing social networks Facebook and YouTube.

State management agencies have assessed that cheap packages, with prices of almost 0 VND, exclusively for using Facebook and YouTube, have violated regulations on telecommunications service price management.