Lite Beer Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Thailand's telecom operators reduce 3G 2.1GHz package service fees 15%By English News BANGKOK, Sept 26 – Thailand’s three telecommunications operators are honoring a price reduction requirement for their 3G services on the 2.1 gigahertz (GHz) spectrum, a senior official of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) said today.Thakorn Tantasith, NBTC secretary general, said the three companies were instructed to lower fees for voice and non-voice services at no less than 15 per cent, as imposed in the licenses granted to them on December 7 last year.The three operators are Advanced Wireless Network (AWN), DTAC Network (DTN) or TriNet, and Real Future (RF).Mr Thakorn said AWN and RF lowered their 3G service fees on 2.1 GHz at 15 per cent while DTN offered price reduction up to 29 per cent.In August, fees for voice service were Bt0.58-0.72/minute, a reduction from the required rate of Bt0.82/minute, or about 10-27 per cent, while internet or non-voice service were set to Bt0.15-0.26/minute, lower than the required rate of Bt0.28/minute, or about 7-46 per cent.He said the 15 per cent fee decrease for voice and non-voice services are applied only to users of 3G mobile phones on 2.1 GHz spectrum. There are currently 11 million 3G on 2.1 GHz users from a total of 90 million users nationwide. Those using 2G and 3G services are not entitled to the price incentives. (MCOT online news) -- TNA 2013-09-26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loong Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 There are currently 11 million 3G on 2.1 GHz users from a total of 90 million users nationwide. Population explosion? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbalEd Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 How can there be 90M users nationwide when the population of Thailand is only 68M??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post edwinchester Posted September 26, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2013 How can there be 90M users nationwide when the population of Thailand is only 68M??? I think they use the same auditors as TAT. Sent from my GT-I9003 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinc Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 How can there be 90M users nationwide when the population of Thailand is only 68M??? Maybe its a figure from sim card applications? Many people have 2 or 3 numbers?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosst Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Hang on, you have to remember all Thai women have one for each ear?? You have to love Thailand, they send me a message "you have used your allowance, we are going to slow down your internet", you have to be kidding, I am in Isaan, the speed they promised was an increase, HA HA HA, DTAC you bunch of losers, HA HA HA. Last year True move was not great so I tried a new carrier, FAIL DTAC, FAIL Next year is another year so I will try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
market trader Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 (edited) How can there be 90M users nationwide when the population of Thailand is only 68M??? Easy. Females have a phone for each ear. Oops I was a click to late on my reply. Edited September 26, 2013 by market trader 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcopops Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 (edited) Well - you were told at the launch - but you woulodn't listen...... Edited September 26, 2013 by wilcopops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torrens54 Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 How can there be 90M users nationwide when the population of Thailand is only 68M??? Maybe because many people, like my wife have two or more of these confounded deVICES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcopops Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 How can there be 90M users nationwide when the population of Thailand is only 68M??? Oh dear...methinks you are a little out of touch.......apart from many people having two phones, how about tablets and dongles? I have 4 SIMs in my name alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loong Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 How can there be 90M users nationwide when the population of Thailand is only 68M??? Oh dear...methinks you are a little out of touch.......apart from many people having two phones, how about tablets and dongles? I have 4 SIMs in my name alone. Then it would be better described as accounts, not users. If 1 user has 10 accounts, it is still only 1 user. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusd Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 How can there be 90M users nationwide when the population of Thailand is only 68M??? Maybe foreigners make up the difference??? Sent from my GT-N7000B using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusd Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Money for mobiles. .. but not much else methinks Sent from my GT-N7000B using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wpcoe Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Does this announced 15% reduction apply to packages, or just the per-minute and/or per call charges for non-plan users? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellodolly Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 How can there be 90M users nationwide when the population of Thailand is only 68M??? Oh dear...methinks you are a little out of touch.......apart from many people having two phones, how about tablets and dongles? I have 4 SIMs in my name alone. I believe you can have 100 SIMs but you are still only one user. I see I am a little late. Late and in the minority a sad day for me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeO Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 How can there be 90M users nationwide when the population of Thailand is only 68M??? It's a reasonable number; for example, the last time I looked, the national mobile phone coverage in Korea was 230%. That is, lots of people have three, four or even five phones...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pib Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 I expect the AIS/DTAC/True provided the NBTC with some "creative" pricing statistics....kinda like how politicians use creative statistics sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jethro69 Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 How can there be 90M users nationwide when the population of Thailand is only 68M??? Oh dear...methinks you are a little out of touch.......apart from many people having two phones, how about tablets and dongles? I have 4 SIMs in my name alone. I believe you can have 100 SIMs but you are still only one user. I see I am a little late. Late and in the minority a sad day for me. Well better than 100 users and only one SIM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muhendis Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Quote: "There are currently 11 million 3G on 2.1 GHz users from a total of 90 million users nationwide." He didn't say sim cards and he didn't say mobile phones. He said users. Since users are frequently people, he means 90 M people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ESCAPIS Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 i wonder if they will reduce the packages fees or increase the allowance??!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pib Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Quote: "There are currently 11 million 3G on 2.1 GHz users from a total of 90 million users nationwide." He didn't say sim cards and he didn't say mobile phones. He said users. Since users are frequently people, he means 90 M people. I expect they count by number of SIMs in use. Of course each SIM will have a name registered to it, but it's also common for say the Mom or Dad to have most of the family SIMs registered in their names versus there kids which could be pretty young. Now of course this means registered names are being double counted. Plus as mentioned by others many people have more than one device/have multiple SIMs. Counting by the number of active SIMs would be more accurate of actual usage than by registered names and is probably what the 90M users represents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcopops Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 (edited) Quote: "There are currently 11 million 3G on 2.1 GHz users from a total of 90 million users nationwide." He didn't say sim cards and he didn't say mobile phones. He said users. Since users are frequently people, he means 90 M people. this is nit-picking. WHO said it? Well it is a quote by a paper.....so is it secondary / tertiary source? furthermore many companies may have various phones, tablets and whatever used by many different people.....who also have their own multiple gadgets.....the point is not really the semantics it is the number of accounts in use that is important - however poorly expressed by the source or the reporters I think we can get the message. As i pointed out earlier, when 3G was introduced the companies were asked to make it 15% cheaper than before, but all they did was introduce a load of new packages making it impossible to compare the old and new pricings - so now at least we have something to compare. BTW - I went to AIS the other day to top up and internet SIM and was told that a "new" package was available that had unlimited internet and 1GB at hi-speed. However this is what I thought I had had in the first place......the result instead of paying 350 baht, I now pay 399 baht..........I give up! Edited September 26, 2013 by wilcopops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkady Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 How can there be 90M users nationwide when the population of Thailand is only 68M??? Easy. Females have a phone for each ear. Oops I was a click to late on my reply. They have one for each boyfriend, so they know exactly who is calling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soutpeel Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 How can there be 90M users nationwide when the population of Thailand is only 68M??? Maybe foreigners make up the difference??? Sent from my GT-N7000B using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Do work for TAT by any chance ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AjarnMartin Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 There are currently 11 million 3G on 2.1 GHz users from a total of 90 million users nationwide.Population explosion? Actually, the reason is that Thailand has the largest per capita phone ownership in the world. Can't remember where I read it, but many have two and three mobile phones! I have many students with two phones and it is a constant topic of conversation with them. Personally, I've never been in a country where the dreaded mobile is so ubiquitous. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diehard60 Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 How can there be 90M users nationwide when the population of Thailand is only 68M??? That is simple Mutiple phones and foriegners here also. All you have to do is think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemoncake Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 How can there be 90M users nationwide when the population of Thailand is only 68M??? Some people have more than 1 sim? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyphodb Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 So does this mean True 3G Internet is gonna go down 15%? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muhendis Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Only if they wish to maintain there share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisinth Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 How can there be 90M users nationwide when the population of Thailand is only 68M??? Assume everyone has at least 2 x smartphones and a tablet each...................... Pretty reasonable guesstimate............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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