This is what we were paying for a basic phone, not too long ago. And who says the iPhone is too expensive..

Yeah, I paid 27,000 or so for the V Series Motorola many years ago, and a bit more for the Motorola Microtac Elite a few years before that.

Compare to the Samsung Galaxy S2 I bought last year for 17,900 which does more than my laptop could do back then.

I pick up my Nokias at Khlong Thom for between B250 and 400, and as phones they work just fine, pretty near indestructible.

Dont know what the date on the flyer is, but I had the 8210 with blue backlight in 2000, and the baht was happy around 40 - 45 at that time.

Yeah, the baht just increased to that level due to the Asian Currency Crisis.. Used to be around 25 baht to the dollar before that.

whats a sumsung?

I paid 52,000 baht for an OKI Phones 1130E in '92 at TAC, the predecessor of DTAC. You paid 5 baht a minute for outgoing and 3.5 baht a minute for incoming. Needless to say, did talk long!

whats a sumsung?

No idea, but I know sang som.

I miss those days. You could fund your trip to Singapore simply by buying a phone there, bringing it back, changing the IMEI, and then selling it at a steep discount to the extortionate prices in Thailand. There were hundreds of ways to make money back then. They were also charging about 22 US cents per minute to terminate into Thailand. No VoIP either. All the grey routes into the country were via VSAT, channel banks and analog lines. Anyone who could get 20 - 30 phone lines from TOT could be pulling in six figure US salaries.

It's too bad. With everything above board and basically deregulated, it has become a low margin game strictly for the big boys with deep pockets. No more opportunities for individual entrepreneurs.

It was a better time.

Yeah, the baht just increased to that level due to the Asian Currency Crisis.. Used to be around 25 baht to the dollar before that.

When I was in Thailand in Nov 1993 the aussie dollar was worth 16 to 17 baht.

How things change.