Network operators will have software to convert 11-digit subscribers.

The above information was announced by the network operators at a press conference on the afternoon of May 29 about the plan to convert 11-digit subscribers to 10-digit ones. 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 in converting from 11-digit to 10-digit ones.

The plan to convert 11-digit subscribers to 10-digit 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.

The allocation of prefixes 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 had to work with them many times and considered the case where the parties could not reach an agreement, then we would draw lots. In the end, all parties 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...

The management agency also expects this new plan to be stable until 2050 - a relatively long time. However, according to a representative of the Telecommunications Department, science and technology are currently very developed, so immediate needs cannot be foreseen. In some countries in the world, adjustments may be required every 10-15 years.