Taiwan market: Vibo partners with Sim2Travel for roaming
Vibo Telecom, one of the five operators of 3G services in Taiwan, has announced the cooperation with Sim2Travel, an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) registered in the British Virgin Islands, to provide roaming service for subscribers of its V-Tone Card and those of Sim2Travel's World Card.
The roaming service is through placing a V-Tone SIM (subscriber identity module) and a World Card USIM (universal SIM) in a handset, according to Vibo. The dual-card roaming service charges a minimum rate of NT$1 (US$0.03) per minute for voice calls from Taiwan to overseas destinations, NT$10/min for calls from China or Hong Kong to Taiwan, and NT$4.4/min for receiving relayed calls from the US, Japan, Singapore, etc., Vibo pointed out.
Vibo currently has about 100,000 subscribers of V-Tone Card and expects the cooperation with Sim2Travel to add 100,000 ones in 2009, the company indicated.
The roaming service is through placing a V-Tone SIM (subscriber identity module) and a World Card USIM (universal SIM) in a handset, according to Vibo. The dual-card roaming service charges a minimum rate of NT$1 (US$0.03) per minute for voice calls from Taiwan to overseas destinations, NT$10/min for calls from China or Hong Kong to Taiwan, and NT$4.4/min for receiving relayed calls from the US, Japan, Singapore, etc., Vibo pointed out.
Vibo currently has about 100,000 subscribers of V-Tone Card and expects the cooperation with Sim2Travel to add 100,000 ones in 2009, the company indicated.
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