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HANOI, Vietnam, April 17, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

--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