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More than 115 million active mobile subscribers have been reviewed, of which about 102 million numbers have been standardized, authenticated and integrated into citizens paper wallets on VNeID. This result creates an additional important layer of data for banks to compare account holder information, improve customer authentication efficiency and prevent fraud in the digital environment. Download Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Bui Hoang Phuong and delegates visit booths at the 2026 Banking Industry Digital Transformation event - Photo: Ministry of Science and Technology. On August 18, at the 2026 Banking Industry Digital Transformation event with the theme Smart Banking in the era of data and AI, representatives of the Ministry of Science and Technology (Ministry of Science and Technology) informed about the results of cleaning mobile subscriber numbers and the coordination mechanism with the industry. Banks compare account holder information. According to Mr. Nguyen Anh Cuong, Deputy Director of the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Science and Technology, in the context of banking services increasingly closely linked to mobile phones, the standardization and authentication of subscriber information is an important basis for financial institutions and banks to verify the authenticity of customer phone numbers when opening accounts or performing transactions. Recently, the Ministry of Science and Technology has coordinated with the Ministry of Public Security and related units to deploy many implementations. solution to standardize subscriber data. During the period 2022-2023, about 125 million subscribers will be reviewed, of which 17 million numbers with invalid information will be processed. Thereby, data of active subscribers is gradually standardized and compared with the National Population Database. Along with this process, the 2023 Telecommunications Law and Decree No. 163/2024/ND-CP add stricter requirements before activating SIM. Accordingly, the personal identification number, full name and date of birth of the subscriber must be checked with the National Population Database; At the same time, apply video calls to check and verify customers and OTP for the second SIM onwards. To continue handling the situation of unofficial SIMs, on March 31, 2026, the Ministry of Science and Technology issued Circular No. 08/2026/TT-BKHCN. The new regulations allow people to look up on VNeID all subscription numbers in their name on mobile networks, confirm the numbers in use and refuse numbers that do not belong to the user. After 4 months of implementation, with the coordination of the Police Department for Administrative Management of Social Order, the Ministry of Public Security and telecommunications businesses, more than 115 million active subscribers have been reviewed. Of these, about 102 million numbers have been standardized, authenticated and integrated. Go to Citizens Document Wallet on VNeID; About 13 million numbers have had their services stopped because they have not fulfilled the regulatory requirements. Adding a layer of authentication for banking transactions. A notable point of Circular No. 08/2026/TT-BKHCN is the requirement to re-authenticate biometrics when the user changes the terminal. This regulation is intended to maintain the authenticity of the subscriber throughout the usage process, similar to the authentication mechanism when the user changes the device where the banking application or VNeID is installed. Through VNeID, banks can check the authenticity of the phone number when customers register to open an account or make transactions. This comparison contributes to determining the relationship between the phone number and the account holder, thereby improving the efficiency of customer authentication and supporting fraud prevention in the digital environment. This is also an important link in the process of forming a digital data ecosystem, when telecommunications data is standardized and can support fields with high requirements for identity authentication such as banking and finance. However, having clean data is a necessary condition. The effectiveness of fraud prevention also depends on how banks exploit and collate data and combine it with other authentication layers. Official subscriber data does not mean that all transactions arising from that phone number are safe. Along with technical solutions, sanctions for handling violations have also been strengthened. According to Decree No. 174/2026/ND-CP, violating businesses can be fined up to 200 million VND and suspended from developing new subscribers for up to 7 months. Individuals using unauthorized SIMs can be fined up to 500,000 VND for each violating subscriber number. In the coming time, the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Science and Technology will continue to coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security, the State Bank of Vietnam and relevant agencies to inspect and supervise implementation at telecommunications enterprises; Promptly rectify, handle violations, maintain correct, sufficient, clean, live subscriber data, ensuring ownership. Thu Giang See moreMore than 99 million subscribers have been authenticated, 12 million subscribers have been suspended one-way See moreHow to change devices, how to re-authenticate mobile subscribers? 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