- Advanced Info Service
Advanced Info Service PCL is
Thailand 's largestGSM mobile phone operator with 23 million customers as of2007 . Founded in March1990 and acquiring Shinawatra Paging inJune 1992 , the highly profitable company is controlled by theShin Corporation , headed byTemasek Holdings , aSingapore government owned agency.Singapore Telecommunications holds a 21.5% stake in the company.Temasek bought AIS and Shin from the ousted Prime Minister
Thaksin Shinawatra in early 2006.ubsidiaries
*Advanced Contact Center Company Limited (ACC) - Operate AIS Call Center 1175
*Advanced Datanetwork Communications Company Limited (ADC) - Provide Online Data Communication service via telephone lines under the name "Datanet", licensed by TOT
*DataNetwork Solutions Company Limited (DNS) - Provide Online Data Communication service via telephone lines under the name "Datanet"in the provincial area.
*Digital Phone Company Limited (DPC) - Operator of "GSM 1800" (acquire from SAMART Corporation)
Competitors
*
DTAC
* True Move (formerly Orange)
* Hutch (Thailand)
* CAT
* TOTExternal links
* [http://www.ais.co.th/ AIS]
* [http://www.dtac.co.th/ DTAC]
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