3G Roaming This Month For Ais Customers

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3G roaming this month for AIS customers

BANGKOK: -- Advanced Info Service (AIS) is expected to start letting its customers roam for broadband service on TOT's 3G network by late this month, AIS chief executive officer Wichian Mektrakarn said recently.

He added that the number of AIS subscribers who would be able to roam on TOT's network would be based on TOT's 3G network capacity.

AIS is reportedly expected to initially roam 500,000 customers on TOT's network during the initial stage, with a maximum of 2 million customers, against the recently agreed 60,000 during the initial stage and 1 million maximum.

AIS has already allowed TOT, which owns its concession, to roll out TOT's nationwide 3G network at some of its cellular base station locations in Greater Bangkok on co-site basis.

TOT is confident it will achieve its goal of setting up 3,500 base stations in 18 provinces, including Greater Bangkok, by next month, and a total of 4,772 base stations nationwide by May.

TOT is aiming for 1.2 million users of this new 3G network this year and 7 million by 2015, up from about 200,000 on its existing 3G network in Greater Bangkok, which made its debut in December 2009 and now has about 500 base stations.

-- The Nation 2011-10-24