Mobile Phones in Thailand
Like everywhere else in the world, mobile phones and mobile telephoning is quite important in Thailand. Important in terms of convenience of course – not important to master your daily life.
Despite prejudices before comming here I have to admit that Thais are as mobile phone crazy as all western countries I know – I would say even more. The phone is everywhere with them. On the motorbike, the car, in class. Everywhere! Anytime.
Besides the addiction to mobilephoning and SMS more and more people, especially the youth, use smartphones to communicate. So it is not only SMS or telephoning, it is also chatting, emailing, etc. Despite the high hardware prices phones like the Apple iPhone, Nokia phones or Android devices are very popular amongst students. Nokia even has a deal with one mobilephone carrier to provider cheaper smartphones in order to aim at the young target audience.
As far as I know there are three big mobile carriers. DTAC, AIS and TrueMove. They all might have their sub-brands (e.g. 1 2 call from AIS) but in the end it all comes back to those three.
Every carrier offers contract or pre-paid solutions and you can find mobile phone shops almost everywhere. Furthermore it is not tooo expensive to phone over here. Costs are comparable to cheap european countries with every carrier offering different promotions from time to time.
So if you are worrying about your mobile calling possibilities, stop! It’s easy as 1,2,call 3 to get connected!
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Sascha is the publisher of my-thai.org and switched from an online marketing agency life in Europe to a teaching and education life in Thailand. He also writes about Teaching & Technology
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