Network operators will have software to convert 11-digit subscribers.
The user's phone contacts will be integrated with the feature of automatically converting and synchronizing to the new area code.
The above information was announced by the network operators at the press conference on the afternoon of May 29 about the plan to convert 11-digit subscribers to 10-digit subscribers. Accordingly, in addition to the propaganda plan and technical solutions, the units have developed applications with enough features to automatically convert and synchronize contacts according to the new code to support customers to convert from 11-digit to 10-digit.
The plan to convert 11-digit subscribers to 10-digit subscribers will begin.from 0:00 on September 15, 2018 with three phases and completed after June 30, 2019. Accordingly, Viettel's 11-digit subscribers will be transferred from 016x to 03x; Vinaphone will be transferred from 012x to 08x and MobiFone will be transferred from 012x to 07x.
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The allocation of prefix numbers is directly related to the SIM selling price of network operators. Therefore, at the press conference, the representativeThe Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Information and Communications said that during the transition process, there were many meetings with new network operators to reach an agreement.
"The network operators have expressed their desire to be allocated this number or that number. However, the current regulations do not discriminate, so we have had to work with them many times and have considered the case where the parties cannot reach an agreement, then we will conduct a draw. In the end, all parties have agreed as stated in the conversion plan," said a representative of the Telecommunications Department.
Continuing to affirm the need to re-plan the number warehouse, the representative of the Ministry of Information and Communications said that 1x numbers, when no longer used for 11-digit subscribers, will be used to develop M2M subscribers (device-to-device connection) to serve the development of 4G, 5G...
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The management agency also expects this new planning to be stable until 2050 - a period considered to be relatively long. However, according to the representative of the Telecommunications Department, science and technology are currently very developed so the immediate needs cannot be foreseen. In some countries in the world, every 10-15 years, it may have to be adjusted once.
