Internet Phone Market: The mainstream card has won over

If in the two years 2005, and the first half of 2006, the mainstream Internet phone card market seems to be quieted by the rampant penetration of smuggled cards, so far the situation seems likely. much more important. The "names" such as SnetFone of SPT and Fone VNN of VDC, the Voice 777 of the new generation Telecommunications Center . with clear origin are gradually regaining market share of services which were previously smuggled by Internet Phone card. .

Businesses return to the period of 'eating, making'

About 80% of the market share is from pirated cards, only 20% of the market share for Internet phone cards of Internet service providers such as FPT, SPT, VDC, Viettel . has made the whole agency State management and enterprises have to start looking back and together to find ways to regain market share, the time has completely changed.

The fight against pirated cards has brought really positive effects. Although there are no specific statistics, according to Inspectorate of the Ministry of Posts and Telematics (MPT), by this time, pirated cards are only about 20% to 30% in the market.

According to the Ministry of Post and Telematics Inspector, international telephone traffic through Internet Phone service of Vietnamese ISPs currently occupies a huge market share of tens of millions of minutes / month instead of tens of thousands of minutes / month as before when card Internet Phone is still 'raging'.

Such as OCI. If the statistics of call traffic in June 2006 of this enterprise only reached 90,000 minutes, then 6 months later, in December 2006, it reached 12.5 million minutes and by March 2007, OCI has reached nearly 17 million minutes.

The above positive signals have caused businesses to invest a lot for previous Internet Phone services such as FPT, Viettel had to stop providing and did not dare to participate in the market despite assessing this potential because Realizing that it was impossible to compete with pirated cards, it was now trying to listen, waiting for the time of re-supplying the service.

Use the official card to enjoy many benefits

According to Mr. Tran Ngoc Tiep, Deputy Chief of Post and Telecommunications Inspectorate, in the past, because users did not know if it was a pirated card, they accidentally provided illegal domestic Internet Telephony services. Over the past time, with the participation of businesses, besides blocking websites providing unofficial Internet Phone services, propaganda measures have also been effective.

Mr. Trung, a familiar customer of Fone VNN service, said that in the past, he also tried using some 'out of stream' cards when being introduced by sales agents, it is really cheap, but Most afraid is the quality of service. As a game of chance, there was a time, calling 'delicious' but also lost 100 thousand dong for the card but could not make any calls. At that time, at that time, both frustrated and unable to call could not be able to "vent anger" on anyone because the phone number was not recorded on the card but contacted.

And now, he is only 'faithful' to VDC's Fone VNN card because the service quality of this business is good, and if there is any problem, just call the customer support phone number listed on the card. dedicated guide. This is one of the advantages of a new official Internet Phone card with a pirated card that is definitely not available - Mr. Trung shared.

Currently, in order to compete with pirated cards, domestic Internet Phone service providers have stated that the first factor they attract customers is the price and quality of service. The representative of VDC said that they are constantly researching new services of the service to attract more Vietnamese customers. Currently, in addition to the preferential price, good quality, VDC's Internet telephony service has outstanding features compared to the official card and pirated card, which is to provide utilities to help customers with virtual phone numbers. so customers can receive a phone call.

As an enterprise that provides the latest Internet Phone service, the new generation Telecommunication Center will bring Voice 777 to compete with pirated cards by the advantage of freight rates. Currently, the price of phone calls to the US and Canada of this service is only VND 390 / minute, calling to Singapore and China is VND 500 / minute and free PC-to-PC calls if both ends are called and All calls are made using Voice 777 account.

Thuy Nguyen