Advanced Info Service


Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited is Thailand's largest GSM mobile phone operator with 39.87 million customers as of Q3 2016. Founded in April 1986, AIS started off as a computer rental business. In October 1990, it launched analog 900 MHz mobile phone services with a 20-year monopoly concession from the Telephone Organization of Thailand, and later became the first company allowed to operate on the GSM-900 frequency. It acquired Shinawatra Paging in June 1992.
The company is controlled by the Intouch Holdings, headed by Temasek Holdings, a Singapore government-owned agency. AIS listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand on. As of 23 December 2011, Intouch holds 40.45 percent of the shares of the company and Singapore Telecommunications together with Thai Trust Fund and OCBC Nominees holds a 23.32 percent stake.
Temasek bought the AIS brand through the 2006 acquisition of the Shin Corporation from ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
In February 2014, in a conflict between the People's Democratic Reform Committee and Shinawatra, the PDRC called for a boycott of AIS, wrongly believing it to be owned by the Shinawatra family.

Subsidiaries

mPay, an AIS subsidiary, is a payment processor and one of Thailand's three major payment service providers. Its partners include CIMB and 2C2P.
According to a 2014 article in The Nation, mPay has around 1.6 million registered users, of which roughly 1.2 million are end-users and 400,000 are mPay agents. 150,000 of mPay's end-users use the service monthly, spending on average 30,000 baht. In November 2015, four million people in Thailand used mPay, and in August 2013, mPay had around 700 merchant partners.

Services and coverage

As of August 2019, AIS is the largest network in Thailand, with 40.1 million subscribers. In addition to post pay services, AIS offers prepaid services under the 1-2Call brand.
Currently data is sold in time-based, volume-based and unlimited packages.
AIS operates 2G, 3G WCDMA/HSPA+, LTE, 5G NR, NB-IoT, and eMTC networks.
FrequencyFrequency
band		Frequency
width
GenerationRadio interfaceNotes
700 MHzn28155GNR
900 MHz52GGSM
900 MHz8103GUMTS/HSPA
900 MHz8104GLTE
1800 MHz3204GLTE
2100 MHz1103GUMTS/HSPA
2100 MHz1204GLTE
2600 MHz41/n41100 4G/5GLTE/NRdynamic spectrum sharing
26 GHzn25812005GNR

Wi-Fi hotspots

AIS owns and operates more than 100,000 Wi-Fi hotspots under the name "AIS SUPER WIFI."

Next G

In 2017 AIS announced it has teamed up with Samsung Electronics to combine Wi-Fi and LTE in a gigabit-speed mobile service called AIS Next G. The new network is estimated to be 15 times faster than the existing LTE and four times faster than the tri-band LTE-A, the fastest wireless network currently available in Thailand.

AIS Play

AIS also provides online multiplatform entertainment, business and financial services called AIS Play that was launched on February 1, 2017. AIS Play is the first Thai IPTV with 4K resolution, VOD and more than 100 popular channels. The current channel lineup is:
As FOX Network Group:
Following with as Turner Broadcast System Asia:
Following with Discovery Network:
Following with Sony Pictures Network Asia
Following with Walt Disney Asia
Following with A+E Network Asia
Following with NBC Universal
Once Channel:
Homemade Theme channel:
Follow More Variety Channel:
Following with Blue Ant Media:
Freemium channels:
100 more free to air channels are available.

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