suzannegoh

Work, but you're the one complaining about Thailand.

What brought you to Thailand in the first place?

I suppose that it the portable router supports 5G and the OP's smartphone doesn't, that might justify the portable router's existence.

Do you know of any examples of that? Some phones are locked to a particular carrier but that's a different issue. And some phones have a faster LTE and 5G implementations than others, but it sounds like a leap of faith to assume that a pocket router would be the fastest of them all.

I guess that I never really listen to the Cars beyond their debut album.

I never noticed that similarity.

Limits on data are a function of the SIM card you buy and the plan that you sign up for, not of the device. In other words, your portable router is also going to be limited by whatever plan the SIM card that you put into has, just as with a smartphone. Swap the Sim cards between your router and the phone and it should be the phone that has unlimited data. I did discover that T-Mobile in the US throttles down hotspot connections to something like 1 Mbps speeds with the prepaid SIM cards but I hadn't heard if any Thai providers doing that. However there are workarounds for that even if it happens, including an android app that prevents your ISP from being able to tell you have set up a Hotspot. If handholding during initial setting was a selling point, you could have just as well walked into an AIS store in a shopping mall, told them what you wanted, and handed them your phone, and you would have been good to go too.

Why buy a pocket router instead of just using your phone to create a Hotspot?

Is this story about visa agents circumventing the 800K baht requirement? I've long thought that some day there would be a crackdown on that but this seems to be about barriers to foreigners opening bank accounts.

I don't believe that either.

Do you think that the tariffs that Thailand applies to imports are a good thing?

No doubt Hamas will compensate them fairly.

I'm surprised to learn that there are people who are critical of a Trump

Good point. Who would have thought that there are more boisterous alcoholics than the Brits?

You're chasing after shiny objectss. The outrageous things that Trump says one day are to distract attention from what he said or did the previous day.