"You have until the end of December 2005 to register your 'pre-paid' mobile phone SIM-card. The "suggestion" is that after this date an unregistered SIM will be blocked throughout Thailand. Basically go to a phone shop, show them your phone, ask them where can you register it, and hopefully you will know. I took my wife to register our phones to a D-tac office in Big C south Pattaya. They opened the phones, recorded the SIM numbers, asked for her ID, & my Passport (a Thai drivers licence will do), entered the details on a D-tac computer, and said "Thank You for Registering". It felt a lot more authentic than the previous experiences. Just goes to show - when you take a Thai person with you - it flows easily.

For sure, Telewiz in IT City (TukCom) & Carrefour WILL register 1-2-call networks. The big supermarkets all have various mobile phone offices. Orange is in Royal Garden Plaza, ground floor, Beach Rd., entrance."
Pattaya ex-pats club website updated November 2, 2005

There has been precious little publicity on this. The mobile phone websites don't mention it anywhere easily discoverable. I telephone AIS/GSM and the operator said that it is correct.

The sheer logistics of registering the phones and organizing to cut off phones means that there is an extreme likelihood that it will never happen. I hear that even in Singapore with it's small population gave up trying to institute a similar system. You can certainly register at Tesco Lotus and I hear the Post Office.



Last edited by wowpow on Wed 28 Dec, 2005 11:14 pm; edited 1 time in total

D-Tac no longer have an office in The Big C.

Lotus Tesco is open.

Jinks, about a week or maybe ten days ago, there was still a DTAC office in Big C *South Pattaya*.  Are you sure it's gone now?  Or, are you maybe thinking of Big C Second Road?

Went to AIS shop in World Trade in Bkk today to register my mobile.   they did not require to see the passport,
but only enter the number of the passport on the form.    They did not ask for any address of my residence
in Thailand.

They also told me that the shut off will occur in the 3 southern provinces where all the trouble has been recently
and that the "shut off" date for the rest of the country is still undecided at this time..... unofficially of course.

Your wife??? wow pow have you and MRS Bu'cket got hitched at last, so what will you now need a phone for, you can all tell each other the local Gossip in the same room???????

you must read the post when you copy and paste lol



Last edited by let me tell u on Thu 29 Dec, 2005 2:12 pm; edited 1 time in total

Will any of this have any effect on my normal habit of buying a temporary SIM card when I arrive in Thailand? I'll be in Pattaya shortly and would normally go to Big C and get a SIM card just for period of my stay.

Scott123 is on your IGNORE list.