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Mobile Telephone ServicesThailand in on a GSM network. Mobile operators in Thailand includes TrueMove,DTAC, Hutch, and AIS—all of which will allow you to use their SIM cards in an importedphone, as long as your phone is not SIM-locked. For short-term visitors, one route is to buy aphone in Thailand along with a SIM card, telephone number and refill used minutes with repaidphone cards. Bangkok is the best place to get started: MBK shopping mall has a whole sectiondedicated to new and used phones and phonecards can be bought from 7-Elevens. Rates aretypically around 3 baht per minute anywhere in Thailand and between 5 baht to 7 baht forinternational calls.3-5-3. Internet servicesThere are internet cafes all over the city. The costs and quality vary greatly. Prices rangefr om as little as 10 baht, right up to 300 baht an hour, if you happen to use a connection at afancy hotel business centre.If you bring your PC in Thailand, the easiest way to get access to an internet serviceprovider (ISP) is to buy one of the Internet start-up packs provided by the main ISPs. Go toPanthip Plaza (Petchaburi Road, not far from the Amari Watergate Hotel) and there are manyshops that stock start-up packs for the many local ISPs. Do NOT buy a start-up pack based onprice. Some of the cheaper packs are for absolutely dreadful ISPs where you will struggle to get aconnection and when you finally do, the available bandwidth is minimal resulting in a snail pacedconnection. It is generally agreed that the best ISPs are True Internet, Samart, Loxinfo, KSC andInternet Thailand. Recently, there was a dramatic increase in international bandwidths including:• True Internet (formerly: Asia InfoNet)• CS Loxinfo• TOT• CAT Telecom• Maxnet• Buddy Broadband• Internet Thailand - Dial-up/ADSL/Leased Line/Wi-Fi• Pacific Internet - Dial-up/ADSL/G.shdsl/Leased Line• Jasmine Internet - Dial-up/ADSL/Leased Line• KSC Internet - Dial-up/ADSL/Leased Line/Wi-Fi; owned by True Corporation butbranded for the upper-end market.• ISSP - Dial-up/ADSL/Leased Line• Samart - Dial-up/ADSL/G.shdsl/Leased Line• A-Net - Dial-up/ADSL/Leased Line• Otaro/InterNetwork - Dial-up/ADSL/G.shdsl/Leased Line/Gigabit Internet• Proen Internet - Dial-up/ ADSL/G.shdsl• Far East Internet• Reach Thailand• Chomanan WorldNet• KIRZ Internet• WorldWebThere are usually two different types of start-up packs that you can buy though it variesfrom ISP to ISP. The first type of start-up pack just gives you a set amount of time online so youcan say buy a 10 / 20 / 30 hour connection. These are the cheapest packs and are good if you39