Total Access Communication Public Company Limited (DTAC) is the second largest GSM mobile phone provider in Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

 (after AIS

Advanced Info Service

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). Dtac is owned by Telenor

Telenor

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 both directly and indirectly. As of 31 December 2009,
dtac had 19.7 million subscribers with the market share of subscriber at around 30%.

As of 23 June 2010, the Company's registered capital was Baht 4,744,161,260 of which Baht 4,735,622,000 was paid-up capital and divided into 2,367,811,000 ordinary shares with a par value of Baht 2.

Dtac has won the Best Mobile Operator of Thailand award for three consecutive years (2005–2007) from Asian MobileNews Awards 2007, organized by Asian MobileNews Magazine.

Services and coverage

DTAC claims to have the second widest coverage nationwide, compared to its main rival AIS

Advanced Info Service

Advanced Info Service PCL is Thailand's largest GSM mobile phone operator with 28.8 million customers as of February 2010. Founded in April 1986, AIS started off as a computer rental business...

, with 8,300 base stations intstalled as of 2008 on the 800 Mhz and 1800 Mhz bands. As of 2010 DTAC is offering both GPRS and EDGE services on its postpaid and prepaid brands DTAC Happy. Unlimited internet access stands at a price of 999 Baht per month or 49 Baht per day (numerous cheaper hourly packages are available, and, in 2010, traffic-based ones were also introduced, obviously due to the increasing popularity of smartphones). DTAC has international roaming agreements with 147 countries.
Currently Dtac is waiting for an approval from CAT to start providing 3G commercial service on the existing analogue band.
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