เอไอเอส เปิดตลาดใหม่ ฉีกหนี สงครามราคาตลาด VoIP ส่งบริการ "Connect Talk" ให้ลูกค้าเอไอเอสมีเบอร์ Local ในต่างประเทศ

AIS TO GO FOR BLUE OCEAN AVOID THE VoIP PRICE WAR

LAUNCHING THE SERVICE “CONNECT TALK”

March 5, 2009, AIS takes the leap to reiterate its leadership in telecom innovation tailored for Thai people around the world, writing the unprecedented phenomenon that revolutionizes the international calls currently oriented to price competition, introducing the latest innovation with the service “Connect Talk,” the first and only Operator in Thailand that allows customers to simply own a personal phone number in a foreign country for the incoming international calls at the Local tariff rate of the foreign country, more convenient and cost saving with the rental fee of 99 Baht per month!   

Mr. Hui Weng Cheong, Deputy President of Advanced Info Service (Public) Co., Ltd. or AIS, disclosed “As the leader in wireless communication innovations, one of our roles is to continually develop innovative services offered to the market.  The key driver is to find out demands of customers in each segment in order to design services that accurately meet customers’ demand.  A major Segment with high potential is the group of customers requiring international contacts. To date there have been 2 service modes in the market including TDM (Wireless Phone Network) and VOIP. (Voice over Internet Protocol)  Other Service Operators in the market focus on call package oriented to outgoing calls to foreign countries only. 

In reality, however, the capabilities of present innovation can be further developed to meet demands of the group of customers often receiving incoming calls from foreign countries such as the parents and friends of Thai students studying abroad, business entrepreneurs of companies contacting customers and partners in foreign markets, expatriates working in Thailand and the families and relatives of Thai workers working overseas. At present, there are no other Service Providers in Thailand responding to these potential groups. 

Therefore, today AIS develops the new service mode to serve the need of the customer groups needing to receive phone calls from friends, relatives and families or even trade partners and customers staying in foreign countries with the service “Connect Talk” featuring “International Number Rental” first and offered only by AIS to AIS customers in Thailand.  You can have number in foreign countries to accommodate your communication. The contact partners in a foreign country call AIS customers in Thailand at Local tariff rate of that country, instead of international call rate as before.  In the initial stage, AIS opens number rental service for the numbers in 5 major countries mostly travelled by Thai students and businessmen including USA, England, Australia, Japan and Singapore.

The service “Connect Talk” runs on VoIP (Voice over IP) with strengths different from other VoIP service operators

1.      More cost saving because the call made to Thailand is subject to tariff rate of the original country (Local) and AIS customers receiving the calls pay only monthly number rental fees.

2.      More convenient because the call receivers in Thailand can choose to receive the call on computer or forward the call to the phones registered on AIS network.  You will never miss any communication.

The service Connect Talk comes with 2 packages to choose from

– Personal Number for a number rental fee of 99 Baht/Month/Number/Country, AIS customers in Thailand can identify 20 desired number in a foreign country.  This package is ideal for personal uses such as call receiving from the families or friends with regular contact. 

– Business Number starts at 500 Baht/Month/Number/Country.  AIS customers in Thailand can receive a call from 5 countries with no limited incoming call numbers.  This package suits the business uses.  In spite of the base in Thailand, a company can have an office number in a foreign country for the target customers to easily contact the company and pay at local tariff rate for more economical and convenient contact.

If interested, AIS customers can register to the service “Connect Talk” simply through website www.connectalk.com from today on.  Exclusively, AIS customers are entitled to free trial from today to April 30, 2009.

“AIS intends to launch the service Connect Talk under the concept “Everywhere is now Local” to make our customers feel warm and contact their beloved ones or business partners more conveniently for more often talks and saver cost.  Besides this is another step moving forward the development of Thailand’s communication by lifting up the quality of international communication.”  Mr. Hui concluded.