AIS LAUNCHES THAILAND’S FIRST “FACEBOOK &TWITTER ALERT” CUSTOMERS “MENT” AND “TWEET” RIGHT ON AIS MOBILE PHONE

AIS connects the world of social network smash, Facebook and Twitter, to every AIS mobile phone, introducing Thailand’s first Facebook &Twitter Alert on mobile phone service in response to the popularity among new generation, receiving and posting messages online (“Ment” and “Tweet”) through quick and convenient real time SMS. Never miss any movement of the communities, expanding the territory of online social network to wireless world on mobile phones obviously accessing every user group (Mass)


Mr. Pratthana Leelapanang, Assistance Vice President – Value Added Service of AIS, disclosed “Now the surge of Social Network becomes the remarkable phenomenon in the online world, especially on the sizzling websites Facebook and Twitter occupying a multitude of members resulting in exponential increase of Internet connects and breaking limit to access mobile phone service. During the past 2-3 years, the growth of Social Network has caused the increase of data use. There are over 65 million worldwide users of Social Network on mobile phones at present. However, the Social Network access through mobile phone has been restricted to only the Smart Phone group.

To expand Social Network to every user group (mass) for unlimited connection to community groups anytime and anywhere, AIS develops the latest service, Thailand’s first “Facebook &Twitter Alert” on mobile phone via SMS allowing users of every handset registered on AIS network to receive “Ment” messages from friends or “Tweet” from the ones you follow on a real time basis and post messages, images and other functions such as Comment, Status Update, Add Friend and Update Tweet through SMS from your mobile phones to online world immediately. Users can identify friends’ name or their follows.

Besides, check out the highlight Twitter Express service that enables AIS users who are not Twitter members to “Follow” the one they want to follow, simply from the recommended Twitter list of interesting persons and top follows including various gurus, artists, stars and celebrities.

We are convinced that the service “Facebook &Twitter Alert” will complete lifestyle of mobile phone users from new generation to stay tuned to their society even more closely.”

AIS customers may see more details and apply for the service through Wap Portal by pressing *900*9# and calling out to get URL link to the Social Network page and select Facebook or Twitter service as desired for the following service rates;
Facebook* Twitter
Member fees Free Trial 7 days Free Trial 7 days
(Receive message) 9 Baht / week 9 Baht / week
(for unlimited messages) (for 10 received messages / day
and 1 Baht/message for excess messages)
Status Update fees 2 Baht / SMS 2 Baht /SMS
(Send message) 6 Baht / MMS
* Service on December 15, 2009

- According to the statistics, there are about 1.34 million Facebook members in Thailand with over 5 million viewers. Thailand is in the 4th ranging of Facebook growth (1st Taiwan, 2nd Vietnam and 3rd Philippine). Regarding Twitter, there are 600,000 members with over 1.2 million followers.
- There are over 6 million AIS Mobile Internet users at present.
- There are about 100,000 users of Facebook on mobile phones.
- There are about 30,000 users of Twitter on mobile phones.