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Thailand eSim

Lucian

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Hi folks,

Can anyone recommend a reasonable esim for Thailand? Asking for a friend who's gonna be there a month or two.
 
Depends what the need is. How much data, how often. If they are going to be in country for that long having a local number and some minutes for calls/SMS might be useful, in which case just getting something on arrival, or having an eSIM for the first few days to get you going before you swap to a local SIM or eSIM.
There are many stalls at BKK both before and after immigration/customs selling SIM and eSIMs for all of the main networks and some of the MVNOs as well. They can also offer bundles for roaming within SE Asia if that is a concern.

Last trip I got an eSIM from Yo but only because one of their packages matched the unusual mix of countries I needed access in, so one eSIM could handle all the places I was visiting, and I was going to have access to local WiFi in most of my accommodation so data usage wasn't going to be so high.

The one bit of advice o would add is that the APN settings that come with the eSIM are not necessarily going to be correct. So get whatever the details are for the eSIM providers APN before you travel - they can also reconfigure themselves to be wrong each time you cross a border and switch to a new network....
 
Hi folks,

Can anyone recommend a reasonable esim for Thailand? Asking for a friend who's gonna be there a month or two.
I would advise they get a local SIM, I got a 14 day unlimited sim with local number for £12 (inc referral discount from Airolo), but if he's going to be there for a while he might want to check out DTAC's website, i found their 5G back in september great, put this country to shame for sure!

They have a range of "Happy Tourist SIMs" --> https://www.dtac.co.th/en/prepaid/products/tourist-sim.htm

They also offer eSIM, which makes it ideal for when you land in Thailand as you can use the SIM straight away, there there is also loads and loads of kiosks in the airport if they want to buy when they get there, i went through Bangkok and Phuket airport and there were plenty!
 
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I'd recommend the offer from AIS:

You can sign up online at the above link, or you can get them from one of the sim counters at the airport. If you run out of data you can top up either at any mobile shop, or using the AIS mobile app. Costs for topup will be the same that locals pay.
Also since it's directly with AIS you have a local thai number, which is very useful if you need to call a local business or register something (eg some restaurants have a queueing system where you register your number and they send you a text when your table is ready)

You get 5G pretty much everywhere in the country.
AIS also provide IPv6, which the other operators don't do yet.

A lot of the online esim offers are actually roaming sims which don't have a local number, and tunnel your data traffic to somewhere else, which can cause all manner of problems (eg local websites will think you're not in the country etc). They generally don't warn you about this up front either. Don't get caught out by that.
 
I was there for a week last year (Phuket mostly). I got an 8 day unlimited TrueMove 5G sim at the airport. Can't remember how much it was but I think it was around 350 baht. AIS was more expensive.

AIS apparently has better coverage but True was excellent. Like the others have said, the 5G coverage and speeds were frighteningly good. It was like you were connected to high speed wifi. At all times. Everywhere. Even miles out at sea.

Later someone told me that data packages are usually much cheaper if you buy a sim at a local 7-Eleven. Oh well, you live and learn.
 
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