1-2-Crap
Posted on July 16, 2007
I bought a SIM card our first day here so I don’t have to pay Cingular roaming charges. I’d read a rave review of a pay as you go plan called 1-2-call when I was researching our trip, so I found a 1-2-call starter kit in a cell phone shop first day.
As a side note, the cell phone shops are in some of the nicest pieces of real estate in Thailand. There’s a huge selection, and everyone carries at least one phone, many also have a PDA device (haven’t seen a blackberry yet though.) The mobile phone really is an amazing piece of technology.
That said, the 1-2-call network appears to be the equivalent of Cingular in the US - ie. they claim extensive coverage, but there’s none in the places it really matters - like right now in Bangkok airport!
As we were taxiing in to the gate just now we heard the familiar beep beep of cell phones receiving messages after being turned back on. I reached for mine and turned it on, and there was no network. Ugh!
I also can’t figure out how to get data working on the 1-2-call network. The phone configuration isn’t explained anywhere in the manual, or on their website from what I can tell.
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