Hanoi (VNS/VNA) -ViettelGroup’s online charging service called vOCS 3.0 won the gold winner for bestnew product or service of the year in telecommunications.

The award was granted by International Business Stevie Awards in London onOctober 21.

vOCS 3.0 was the only Vietnamese winner of the award, which was also bestowedupon Ooredoo (Qatar) for fastest 5G service in the world, Singtel (Singapore)for the Singtel Shop Comcentre flagship store transformation andTelkom (Indonesia) for the Vessel Information System Mobile App.

The Viettel product was praised for its creativity and impact on a large numberof users as it can be individualised for each customer.

Currently, vOCS 3.0 is used in 11 countries in which Viettel is operating.

The most distinctive feature of vOCS 3.0 is the ability to design for eachcustomer a tariff package, which no other online charging service in the worldcan do.

Clara Im, Communications Manager – Asia, The Stevie Awards, said the vOCS3.0 shows the insight of researchers and product developers, and the ability toaddress the reservations of data service providers to integrate voice and dataon a real-time billing system.

For the next version of the service, Viettel plansto support Mobile Virtual Network Operator, Network Slicing and beready to bill tariffs for Internet of Things and 5G subscribers.

With the 4.0 version, Vietnam would become one of few OCS producing countriessupporting virtualisation technology, helping save costs and opening newbusiness opportunities.

Meanwhile, TH Milk Joint Stock Company gained three awards at theInternational Business Stevie Awards.

They included Thai Huong, founder of TH Milk, winning Entrepreneur of theYear – Food & Beverage, while TH Milk won bronze in theCustomer Service Department of the Year – All Other Industries and its THtrue NUT, a milk product, won the bronze for Best New Product or Serviceof the Year – Consumer Products.

The annual International Business Stevie Awards have been held since 2003,aiming to the achievements of businesses and individuals worldwide to thecommunity including ICT and telecom sectors.

This year’s event attracted more than 3,900 nominations from 74 countries.-VNS/VNA