Advanced Info Service
| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| SET: ADVANC | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 24 April 1986 |
| Founder | Thaksin Shinawatra |
| Headquarters | Phaya Thai, Bangkok, Thailand |
Area served | Thailand |
Key people |
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| Products | Mobile network, Internet service provider, Internet TV |
| Services | Mobile telephony, Internet |
| Revenue | 180.89 billion baht (2019) |
| 37.40 billion baht (2019) | |
| 31.19 billion baht (2019) | |
| Total assets | 289.67 billion baht (2019) |
| Total equity | 69.39 billion baht (2019) |
Number of employees | 10,586+ (2013) |
| Parent | Intouch Holdings |
| Subsidiaries | Triple T Broadband (3BB) JASIF (Jasmine Broadband Internet Infrastructure Fund) (19%) |
| Website | www |
Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited (AIS) is Thailand's largest GSM mobile phone operator with 39.87 million customers as of Q3 2016. Founded in April 1986, AIS started off as a computer rental business. In October 1990, it launched analog 900 MHz mobile phone services with a 20-year monopoly concession from the Telephone Organization of Thailand (TOT), and later became the first company allowed to operate on the GSM-900 frequency. It acquired Shinawatra Paging in June 1992.
The company is controlled by the Intouch Holdings (formerly Shin Corporation), headed by Temasek Holdings, a Singapore government-owned agency. AIS listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand on 5 November 1991. As of 23 December 2011, Intouch holds 40.45 percent of the shares of the company and Singapore Telecommunications (also majority-held by Temasek) together with Thai Trust Fund and OCBC Nominees holds a 23.32 percent stake.
Temasek bought the AIS brand through the 2006 acquisition of the Shin Corporation from ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
In February 2014, in a conflict between the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PRDC) and Shinawatra, the PDRC called for a boycott of AIS, wrongly believing it to be owned by the Shinawatra family.