Register phone number for bank in Vietnam from overseas

mikedylan2001 Active member

41POSTS

4 years ago

Would this be possible? Get friend in Vietnam to send me Vietnamese SIM card overseas then I put it in my phone here? Would I be able to activate the SIM card from overseas? I need to register my new phone number with the bank as old one has run out.

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dionstravels Banned

42POSTS

4 years ago

no, but you could have your friend register it in vietnam.

AndyHCMC ViP

1855POSTS

4 years ago

mikedylan2001 wrote:
Would this be possible? Get friend in Vietnam to send me Vietnamese SIM card overseas then I put it in my phone here? Would I be able to activate the SIM card from overseas? I need to register my new phone number with the bank as old one has run out.

Are you in Vietnam now?
VN banks normally need you to give them a copy of passport with current visa in.
Your GF can just buy a new sim and you can give number but that may not get around the if not in VN you cant have a current bank account

Vaneric Active member

60POSTS

4 years ago

I enquired about using vietel to roam in other asian countries. It cost a lot of money upfront. Unless your a fortunate soul to pay your phone bill post pay monthly on a ctedit card.聽 Sim not work overseas or outside of vietnam

Jlgarbutt ViP

1426POSTS

4 years ago

From esperience i had a viettel prepaid sim a few years back just for datw while here for two weeks. Once the moth was up even on wifi back home even services like whatsapp stopped working.

Where are you now?聽 Sending a sim card liek i had from viettel once purchased would tske arpund two weeks to arrive..

Chris-Minh76 New member

3POSTS

4 years ago

I bought a Viettel SIM card on eBay prevaricated for roaming. I can receive SMS messages free in the US everything else costs a significant amount of money but nothing extreme (you wouldn鈥檛 want it use it regularly instead of a US SIM). It is also easy to add funds while outside Vietnam. Hope that helps.

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Ciambella ViP

3482POSTS

4 years ago

Chris-Minh76 wrote:
I bought a Viettel SIM card on eBay prevaricated for roaming. I can receive SMS messages free in the US everything else costs a significant amount of money but nothing extreme (you wouldn鈥檛 want it use it regularly instead of a US SIM). It is also easy to add funds while outside Vietnam. Hope that helps.

Prevaricated?

pogiwayne Serial expat

322POSTS

4 years ago

Ciambella wrote:
Chris-Minh76 wrote:
I bought a Viettel SIM card on eBay prevaricated for roaming. I can receive SMS messages free in the US everything else costs a significant amount of money but nothing extreme (you wouldn鈥檛 want it use it regularly instead of a US SIM). It is also easy to add funds while outside Vietnam. Hope that helps.

Prevaricated?

If any card Prevaricates I don鈥檛 want it around. I have enough of that in my life. 馃槀

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