--Viettel Group's member companies are helping millions of customers worldwide 
to stay online through the pandemic. 
--Services fee discount, educational packages and free money transfer are some 
of the solutions 


With countries constraining or advising their citizen to stay home in order to 
reduce the effect of the pandemic, people depend more heavily than ever on 
their internet connection for work and education.

To lessen the financial burden of customers, Viettel's member companies are 
providing telecommunications services at exceptionally low fee. Natcom triples 
fixed-line internet bandwidth for Haitian without changing the price. In Peru, 
Bitel has doubled internet bandwidth available to current users and gifted 1GB 
data to 3.6 million customers. Unitel reduces 40% data services fee for 
customers in Laos.

Remote education is also an area where Viettel are providing much needed 
support. Metfone - Viettel's venture in Cambodia - are providing free internet 
connection to the country's education portals. Metfone also halves the internet 
fee to more than 2000 students until May. In Mozambique, Movitel is planning to 
provide special data packages to student which allows free access to official 
study materials.

Viettel Group's companies also promoting the use of mobile money/wallet to 
avoid the need of going to physical bank. Movitel raised daily money transfer 
cap and reduced transfer fee, encouraging people to make payment and transfer 
safely from home. In Laos, Star Fintech collaborated with Red Cross Laos to 
raise money using the company's app u-money while waiving all transfer fee. 
Cambodia's Metfone is providing free wallet-to-wallet money transfer.

Do Manh Hung, CEO of Viettel Global, said: "Despite the challenges of the 
pandemic, we always have in mind our responsibilty to help the people and 
government of the countries in which we have investment. We commit to provide 
quality services and technoligies to the people in affected areas with 
advategous pricing or even free if needed."

About Viettel Group

Viettel Group is an international enterprise headquartered in Hanoi, Vietnam. 
The group has investments in 11 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin-America. 
Viettel has five business lines including telecommunications and information 
technology (IT); research and manufacture of electronic and telecommunications 
equipment; defense industry; cyber security and digital services. Viettel 
Telecom, a member of Viettel Group, is the largest telecommunications service 
provider in Vietnam.

SOURCE  Viettel Group