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Vietnam: Selling SIM cards with prepaid mobile services activated shall be fined up to VND 40 million

14:24, 04/06/2017

This is one of the contents mentioned in Decree No. 49/2017/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government providing amendments on regulations in posts, telecommunications, information technology and radio frequency sectors.

According to new regulations of Decree No. 49/2017/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, a fine ranging from VND 30,000,000 to VND 40,000,000 shall be imposed for any of the following violations:

- Selling SIM cards but failing to get the authorization to conclude Contracts from the mobile telecommunications service provider;

- Selling SIM cards with subscriber information already input or prepaid mobile services activated;

- Selling terminal devices without SIM card with subscriber information already input or prepaid mobile services activated;

- Trading, exchanging or using universal SIM cards or devices with function to activate SIM cards without taking the SIM card out to input subscriber information, or to activate prepaid mobile services for SIM cards;

- Failing to publish on the telecommunications enterprise's website the list of POS or publishing the list of POS containing insufficient information as regulated.

Decree No. 49/2017/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government takes effect from April 24, 2017.

- Ngoc Duyen -

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