You must need to have a sim card for convenient communication and contact when you are in Vietnam, right? Let DichungTaxi help you with “How to buy a Vietnam mobile sim card at airport on arrival”.
In Vietnam, at the international airports like Ho Chi Minh – Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN), Hanoi – Noi Bai International Airport (HAN), Da Nang International Airport (DAD), Nha Trang – Cam Ranh International Airport (CXR),…There will be some booths of operators selling simcards.
Booths selling simcard (Source: Internet)
In Vietnam, there are many operators selling simcard included: Vinaphone, Viettel, Mobiphone, Vietnammobile.
Each operators will have different price for type of sim card and data for Internet (3G, 4G).
We recommend that if you are a traveller for few days, you should choose Vinaphone or Viettel because they have some convenient package.
Vinaphone
Vinaphone have special promotion for tourists with tourism simcard: SIM INTERNET 3G, no need to top up just only 199.000 VND customers will have 2GB with hight speed 3G Data daily, 20.000 VND in main account and within 7 days.
Besides that, they have other packages for another type called “BIG DATA” packages that get you more 3G data than the throttled packages BUT does not offer free throttled data after you hit the limit.
a) Packages with a hard cap on all data
|
Name of Package |
Price of Package / 30 days |
Amount of high-speed data |
Cost of data thereafter |
|
MI10 |
10,000đ |
50 MB |
25đ/50KB or 500đ per MB |
|
MI30 |
25,000đ |
150 MB |
25đ/50KB |
|
MI50 |
50,000đ |
500 MB |
25đ/50KB |
|
M120 |
120,000đ |
1.5 GB |
25đ/50KB |
b) Packages with throttled data after you reach a certain limit
|
Name of Package |
Price of Package / 30 days |
Amount of high-speed data |
Cost of data thereafter |
|
MAX |
70,000đ |
600 MB |
Free (throttled 2G) |
|
MAX100 |
100,000đ |
1.2 GB |
Free (throttled 2G) |
|
MAX200 |
200,000đ |
3 GB |
Free (throttled 2G) |
|
MAX300 |
300,000đ |
30 GB |
Free (throttled 2G) |
c) “BIG DATA” packages: more 3G data off the bat but once you reach the limit, no throttled data
|
Name of Package |
Price of Package / 30 days |
Amount of high-speed data |
Cost of data thereafter |
|
BIG70 |
70,000đ |
1.6 GB |
None, must buy another package |
|
BIG100 |
100,000đ |
2.5 GB |
None, must buy another package |
|
BIG200 |
300,000đ (not a typo) |
5.5 GB |
None, must buy another package |
|
BIG300 |
300,000đ |
10 GB |
None, must buy another package |
d) “FastConnect” packages: data-only SIM card that can neither receive nor place calls
|
Name of Package |
Price of Package / 30 days |
Amount of high-speed data |
Cost of data thereafter |
|
F70 |
70,000đ |
7 GB |
FastConnect, cannot receive nor place |
|
F90 |
90,000đ |
9 GB |
FastConnect, cannot receive nor place |
|
F120 |
120,000đ |
12 GB |
FastConnect, cannot receive nor place |
Viettel
|
CATEGORIES |
FEATURES |
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Sim data Dcom D50 (200.000VNĐ) |
3,5Gb/30 days of high speed internet. After using 3,5Gb, you can use slow speed internet without fee + 50.000 VNĐ |
|
Sim Data Dcom D70 (280.000VNĐ) |
7Gb/30 days of high speed internet. After using 7Gb, you can use slow speed internet without fee + 100.000VNĐ |
|
Sim data Dcom D90 (310.000VNĐ) |
9Gb/30 days of high speed internet. After using 9Gb, you can use slow speed internet without fee + 100.000VNĐ |
|
Sim call + data 4G 4G90 (200.000VNĐ) |
13GB Data of 4G internet (the first 10Gb used within a week, next 3Gb used within 30 days + 110.000 vnđ in your main account to call and text (internal network, external network, international network) |
|
Sim call + data 4G 4G125 (300.000VNĐ) |
15GB Data of 4G internet (the first 10Gb used within a week, next 5Gb used within 30 days)+ 175.000 vnđ in your main account to call and text (internal network, external network, international network) |
>>> We hope that you have already found useful information for your trip <<<
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