Ais 3G

[Gary A]

A friend of mine who lives in the boonies near me uses an AIS supplied dongle for his Internet connection. Up until a few days ago it used only EDGE. Yesterday he asked me why he had a new icon on his taskbar. He said it was a little green circle with a 3G in the center. He didn't know what 3G was. I told him that 3G would be much faster and his next question was how to use it. I couldn't tell him.

What does he have to do to connect via 3G? Will his present SIM card work?

[lomatopo]

All he really needs to do is subscribe to data plan, if he hasn't done so already.

Does he already have a data plan? If so which one?

One-2-Call's time-based plans are capped at 384 Kbps, while volume-based plans are un-capped until the fair-use limit is reached, then speed is reduced to 384 Kbps.

Not sure what his requirements/budget are?

http://www.ais.co.th/mobileinternet/en/internet-package/#1

http://www.ais.co.th/mobileinternet/en/internet-package/#2

[Gary A]

All he really needs to do is subscribe to data plan, if he hasn't done so already.

Does he already have a data plan? If so which one?

One-2-Call's time-based plans are capped at 384 Kbps, while volume-based plans are un-capped until the fair-use limit is reached, then speed is reduced to 384 Kbps.

Not sure what his requirements/budget are?

http://www.ais.co.th...rnet-package/#1

http://www.ais.co.th...rnet-package/#2

He uses the pre-paid 200 baht per month for 50 hours. Quite frankly, that's all he can afford.

[Gary A]

What's the difference between a GSM customer and a 12call customer? The GSM customer gets 300MB for 150 baht and the 12call only 150MB for 150 baht.

[lomatopo]

What's the difference between a GSM customer and a 12call customer? The GSM customer gets 300MB for 150 baht and the 12call only 150MB for 150 baht.

One-2-Call is the pre-paid brand of AIS.

GSM Advance is the post-paid brand of AIS.

[Gary A]

What's the difference between a GSM customer and a 12call customer? The GSM customer gets 300MB for 150 baht and the 12call only 150MB for 150 baht.

One-2-Call is the pre-paid brand of AIS.

GSM Advance is the post-paid brand of AIS.

Thanks, I suspected that but didn't think there would be that much difference.

[canuckamuck]

Oh Lord, please let a 3G symbol appear on my taskbar!!!

[MANICMINER]

I have been using the AIS dongle for years. when i signed up, i was on the unlimited edge/gprs plan. when 3G came along it was automatically added to my package, so you don't have to do anything to get it, but i only get maximum 2gb of 3G using a month. if you download a lot of video, you use it up very quickly. even if you change to their best plan, you only get 5gb.