SIM card

[DUBAIRED]

Can anyone tell me how easy it is and how much it would cost to get a SIM card?

[Shivers]

Step 1: Walk into store and ask to purchase SIM card.

Step 2: Pay for SIM card.

 

That's all. As for price, it varies depending on the company (service provider) you choose. Few hundred baht, I believe, is the average.

[leadpencil]

You can buy sim cards from 7-eleven for 200-300 baht.

 

The last one that I purchased was a DTAC Happy sim. The calls and message are slightly more expensive however the sim lasts longer before expiring and also works outside Thailand.

 

 

[lbfmlover]

Can anyone tell me how easy it is and how much it would cost to get a SIM card?

 

 

In any seven 11 or family mart you can buy a thai sim, Happy/Dtac are good and cheap to call the uk the last one i bought was i think 200 baht with 100 credit.

[Tariq]

I always stop by Big C on the first day, go to the top floor there are a dozen shops there. I buy the sim card there, get them to put in the phone, buy a couple of hundred baht credit, and get them to add the credit too. I found a while back that some of the Thai operators have the complete dialogue for adding credit in Thai.

[Mike Asia]

I always stop by Big C on the first day, go to the top floor there are a dozen shops there. I buy the sim card there, get them to put in the phone, buy a couple of hundred baht credit, and get them to add the credit too. I found a while back that some of the Thai operators have the complete dialogue for adding credit in Thai.

What do you mean the 'complete dialogue ' for adding credit? You just type in the numbers nothing to do with Thai mate the instructions are also in English

[McFly]

You can also buy them in TukCom everywhere.

[THAJEC]

I bought Thai sim card name 1 2 Call in 7/11 shop I think 199 BTH. It is very easy

[Tariq]

What do you mean the 'complete dialogue ' for adding credit? You just type in the numbers nothing to do with Thai mate the instructions are also in English

 

Sim I had first time (Maybe happy, but not sure) had the initial dialogue in Thai. It became a habit to buy the sim, get the guy to fit it and charge it. Does not cost anything extra.

 

I always assumed that the instructions will be fully in Thai.

 

My bad.

[Darrel]

I paid 100 Baht for my SIM in 7/11, with 10B credit. The credit on mine is valid one year once topped up. I bought 50B top-up a couple of weeks later and havent used any of it yet as I only receive calls and never make them.

[Mike Asia]

I paid 100 Baht for my SIM in 7/11, with 10B credit. The credit on mine is valid one year once topped up. I bought 50B top-up a couple of weeks later and havent used any of it yet as I only receive calls and never make them.

 

what do you do..... call the girls, let it ring once and hang up and they call you back ? I am going to start trying that.

[goldfinger24]

You can buy sim cards from 7-eleven for 200-300 baht.

 

The last one that I purchased was a DTAC Happy sim. The calls and message are slightly more expensive however the sim lasts longer before expiring and also works outside Thailand.

I have a D-TAC happy and have used it now for over 2 years comming up, top up lasts for a year from the date you last top up ,so always top up day of leaving Thailand so is valid for next trip, also went into the D-TAC shop in tesco lotus last trip and they put the UK on the roaming. Took a top up card home and topprd up in UK last December and it still gives a year validity. I use the web site for free txt's to a D-TAC number or 2 baht to a non D-TAC number from home in the UK.