Advanced Info Service

{{Short description|Thai telecommunications company}}

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{{Infobox company

| name = Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited

| logo = Advanced_Info_Service_logo-en.svg

| logo_size = 200px

| caption =

| type = Public

| traded_as = {{SET|ADVANC}}

| fate =

| predecessor =

| successor =

| founder = Thaksin Shinawatra

| foundation = {{start date and age|1986|04|24|df=yes}}{{cite book|title=Annual Registration Statements 2009|year=2010|url=http://investor.ais.co.th/FileUpload/Editor/DocumentUpload/WebContent/56-1/56-1%202552.pdf|author=Advanced Info Service|language=th|access-date=23 June 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722002414/http://investor.ais.co.th/FileUpload/Editor/DocumentUpload/WebContent/56-1/56-1%202552.pdf|archive-date=22 July 2011|url-status=dead}}

| key_people = {{ubl|Vithit Leenutaphong (Chairman)|Somchai Lertsutiwong (CEO)}}

| location = Phaya Thai, Bangkok, Thailand{{cite web |title=Contact us |url=http://www.ais.co.th/aboutais/en/index.html#Contact |website=Advanced Info Service PLC |access-date=2019-01-01}}

| locations =

| area_served = Thailand

| industry = Telecommunications

| products = Mobile network, Internet service provider, Internet TV

| services = Mobile telephony, Internet

| revenue = {{increase}} 180.89 billion baht (2019){{cite web |title=ADVANC: ADVANCED INFO SERVICE PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED: Financial data |url=https://investor.ais.co.th/misc/ar/20200228-advanc-ar2019-en.pdf |website=AIS |access-date=2021-01-23}}

| operating_income = {{increase}} 37.40 billion baht (2019)

| net_income = {{increase}} 31.19 billion baht (2019)

| assets = {{decrease}} 289.67 billion baht (2019)

| equity = {{increase}} 69.39 billion baht (2019)

| owner =

| num_employees = 10,586+ (2013)[http://investor.ais.co.th/en/Corporate-Governance-HR.html Staff & Human Resource Development] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120152409/http://investor.ais.co.th/en/Corporate-Governance-HR.html |date=20 November 2015 }} Investor Site – AIS

| parent = Intouch Holdings

| divisions =

| subsid = Triple T Broadband (3BB)
JASIF (Jasmine Broadband Internet Infrastructure Fund) (19%)

| homepage = {{URL|https://www.ais.th/en/}}

| footnotes =

}}

Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited (AIS) is Thailand's largest GSM mobile phone operator with 39.87 million customers as of Q3 2016.{{cite news|title=AIS to double 3G users|url=http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/AIS-to-double-3G-users-next-year-30165832.html|work=The Nation|access-date=12 September 2012|author=Sirivish Toomgum|date=September 2011|archive-date=8 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608103533/http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/AIS-to-double-3G-users-next-year-30165832.html|url-status=dead}}{{Failed verification|date=May 2018}} Founded in April 1986, AIS started off as a computer rental business.Job TopGun,[http://www.jobtopgun.com/content/profile/ais900/index.jsp?id_emp=255&name=Advanced+Info+Service+PLC.&count=3&p=1&code=] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713111614/http://www.jobtopgun.com/content/profile/ais900/index.jsp?id_emp=255&name=Advanced+Info+Service+PLC.&count=3&p=1&code=|date=13 July 2011}} Advanced Info Service PLC 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.[http://advanc.listedcompany.com/milestone.html#year_2000 AIS corporate website], click on "About AIS", "Company profile", and then "1990"{{Additional citation needed|date=May 2018}} It acquired Shinawatra Paging in June 1992.{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}}

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 {{Start date|df=yes|1991|11|5}}.{{cite web|title=ADVANC Company Profile|url=http://www.set.or.th/set/companyprofile.do?symbol=ADVANC|work=Stock Exchange of Thailand|access-date=23 June 2010|archive-date=27 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927144656/http://www.set.or.th/set/companyprofile.do?symbol=advanc|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|title=Page 42 – Shareholding structure – AIS 2011 Annual Report |url=http://investor.ais.co.th/FileUpload/Editor/DocumentUpload/WebContent/Annual%20Report/2011/AIS_En2011.pdf |access-date=7 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524102939/http://investor.ais.co.th/FileUpload/Editor/DocumentUpload/WebContent/Annual%20Report/2011/AIS_En2011.pdf |archive-date=24 May 2013 }}{{cite news|title=Shin to sell more of AIS to Singtel|url=http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Shin-to-sell-more-of-AIS-to-Singtel-30169413.html|work=The Nation|access-date=7 April 2012|archive-date=8 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608104500/http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Shin-to-sell-more-of-AIS-to-Singtel-30169413.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=ADVANC Major Shareholder|url=http://www.set.or.th/set/companyholder.do?symbol=ADVANC|website=Stock Exchange of Thailand|access-date=23 June 2010|archive-date=1 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301045536/http://www.set.or.th/set/companyholder.do?symbol=ADVANC|url-status=dead}}

Temasek bought the AIS brand through the 2006 acquisition of the Shin Corporation from ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.{{cite news|title=Thaksin helps himself|url=http://www.economist.com/node/5444898|access-date=23 June 2015|newspaper=The Economist|date=2006-01-26}}

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.{{cite news|title=PDRC targets Shinawatra interests|url=http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/395900/pdrc-to-target-shinawatra-business-interests|access-date=6 March 2014|newspaper=Bangkok Post|date=19 February 2014}}