The Gtel Mobile Joint Stock Company (Gtel Mobile) announced that its network, Beeline, will become operational on July 20 with the prefix number of 0199.

Beeline, which will be the seventh mobile network in Vietnam , will cover Hanoi , the central coastal city of Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City .

Gtel Mobile says that once it becomes operational, Beeline will provide a competitive package, called Big Zero, in which Beeline users will be exempted from any charges from the second minute of any call to any other Beeline numbers.

In addition, calls to other networks will cost 1,199 VND per minute and international calls will be 3,600 VND per minute. An SMS message among Beeline users will cost 250 VND, an SMS message to other networks will cost 350 VND and international SMS messages will be 2,500 VND.

Furthermore, Beeline subscribers can use roaming services supplied by 533 providers available in 213 countries and territories around the world.

Gtel Mobile is a joint venture between the Global Telecommunication Corporation under the Ministry of Public Security and Vimpelcom , Russia ’s second largest mobile phone operator, and Beeline is its international brand name.

With 60 percent of the stake held by its Vietnamese partner and the rest belonging to Vimpelcom, Gtel Mobile has been licensed to build, develop and exploit the mobile telecoms market and value-added tax services using the Global System for Mobile Communications (GMS) technology.

Vietnam now has more than 80 million mobile subscribers and Viettel has the largest number of subscribers amongst the six mobile carriers, followed by Mobiphone and Vinaphone./.