Advanced Info Service
| Advanced Info Service
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| legal form | Public Company Limited |
| ISIN | TH0268010Z11 |
| founding | 1986 |
| Seat |
Bangkok , Thailand
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| management | Wichian Mektrakarn (CEO) |
| Branch | telecommunications |
| Website | Advanced Info Service |
Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited (AIS) is the largest wireless operator in Thailand with nearly 29 million customers .
AIS was founded on April 24, 1986 by Thaksin Shinawatra as a computer leasing company. In October 1990 the company introduced the 900 MHz cellular service, which it had received as a monopoly license from the Telephone Organization of Thailand (TOT) for 20 years . AIS has been listed in the SET Index on the Thai stock exchange since 1991 . In June 1992, AIS bought Shinawatra Paging. From 2002 to 2006 AIS was led by the future Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra .
AIS is majority owned by the Singaporean state holding Temasek . 40.5% of the shares are held by INTOUCH (formerly Shin Corporation), which has been the Thai subsidiary of Temasek since it was sold by the Shinawatra family in 2006. Another 23.3% is held by Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), which also belongs to Temasek. 36.2% of the shares are in free float (as of February 2015).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Advanced Info Service PLC: Company Overview ( Memento from July 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, English)
- ^ Stock Exchange of Thailand : ADVANC. Retrieved August 14, 2019 .
- ↑ ADVANCED INFO SERVICE PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED: Major Shareholder , Stock Exchange of Thailand, accessed November 13, 2015.