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Articles tagged with: Ais
Thailand's AIS Profits Down - Shuffles Management
Thailand's Advanced Info Service (ais) has announced a one-third drop in its quarterly earnings, and announced a shake up of its management team. The company reported a second quarter profit of THB4.2 billion (US$124 million), down from the THB6.3 billion a year ago, although that was boosted by a one-off settlement with rival operator, TAC. more
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Thai Operators Start Blocking Spam SMS
Thailand's three main mobile network operators are to cooperate on blocking SMS spam being sent over their networks. The three GSM based networks, ais, DTAC and True Move are to spend THB 30 million (US$880,000) on anti-spam software to filter messages sent between their three networks. more
Related Tags: dtac, true-move, spam, sms, text-messaging, base, three, Thailand
Thai Regulator Publishes Mobile Number Portability Plans
Thailand's National Telecommunications Commission has published the final details of its plans for mobile number portability. The new rules will come into effect next month, although the operators will actually have up to three months to comply with the regulations. more
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AIS Selects Forte - Schema's GSM Network Optimization Solution
Thai operator, Advanced Info Services (ais) has ordered a mobile-measurements based, RF Analysis and Optimization solution to improve network quality of service and to increase capacity and coverage. Schema's Ultima Forte platform will be supplied by its local distributor, Mobile Senses Asia. more
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Thailand 3G License Sale Could be Delayed Until 2010
Thailand's on/off process to issue 3G licenses seems to have hit the off-switch again with reports that the tender could be delayed until next year, with network launches not now expected until late in 2010. The secretary-general of the Office of National Telecommunications Commission, Suranand Wongwittayakamjorn told the Bangkok Post that "the much-awaited trial auction for 3G licences will now be put back to January, with licences being awarded by the first quarter of next year" more
Related Tags: national-telecommunications-commission, ntc, 3g-license, 3g-licenses, Thailand
AIS Suspends 3G Expansion Pending License Auction
Thailand's Advanced Info Service (ais) has suspended the expansion of its trial 3G network running over the 900Mhz band, citing concerns about congestion for its existing GSM subscribers. The conpany will now wait for the long delayed 3G auction to release radio spectrum in the more conventional 2100 Mhz bands. more
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Thailand's AIS Q1 2009 - Slow quarter, but on a par with rivals
ais is the market leader in Thailand, where penetration looks to have finished Q1 09 at around 95%. The rise in penetration has been accompanied by a decline in growth, with annual growth rates falling in each quarter since Q2 07. Although the full Q1 09 set of results for Thailand is not yet complete, it seems almost certain to be the slowest quarter since Q3 05, when there were net additions of just 0.41m. Both True Move and DTAC saw their lowest gains since that same quarter, with uplifts of 0.25m and 0.26m respectively. ais only just managed to top these figures with a gain of 0.27m, its lowest result since Q1 06 and the second lowest this century. more
Related Tags: true-move, Thailand
Fitch Afirms Debt Ratings for Thailand's AIS
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Advanced Info Service's (ais) Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Rating at 'BBB+', National Long-term rating at 'AA(tha)' and National Short-term rating at 'F1+(tha)'. The Outlook remains Stable. more
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Fitch Affirms Singtel's & Optus' Debt Ratings
Debt ratings agency, Fitch has affirmed Singapore's SingTel and its Australian subsidiary, Optus' Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) at 'A'. The Outlook remains Stable. At the same time, Fitch has affirmed SingTel's and Optus' outstanding senior unsecured bonds at 'A'. more
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Thailand's AIS profits up despite prepaid slowdown
ShinCorp holds investments in mobile networks in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. ais, the Thai market leader, is by far the largest operation of these three, with a customer base of 26.77m at the end of Q3 08. The Laotian operation Laotel had just under 0.80m customers at the end of the quarter, while Cambodian operation Camshin had 0.71m. However, the two smaller networks are growing in importance: their proportion of ShincorpĂ's total mobile base increased from 4.5% at the end of Q3 07 to 5.4% a year later. ais saw quarterly net additions of 0.81m, up from 0.51m in the year-earlier quarter. The contract base grew strongly with 0.15m net additions, the highest figure in six quarters, and finished Q3 with 2.49m customers. more