12Call vs DTAC

[Gabor 296]

What is your opinion ? Quality of the talk and 3g ? Now I have a 12CALL SIM, but sometimes the network sign disappear, sometimes the voice disappear in the middle of the talk... What do you think ? Worth to change to DTAC ?

Edited January 23, 2015 by Gabor

[teelack 9,628]

As a side issue is there not a change coming up this year with Dtac. I seem to recall that they are changing their transmission mode requiring some hardware changes. As said, this is only avague memory but perhaps someone can put me right.

[yankee99 1]

lock your phone on GSM then your signal will be great. The downside is you'll lose 3g. The 2100 coverage sucks.

[jacko 8,813]

Why have you left True out of the picture?

Anyhow I uses 12Call but only on GSM and do fine.

Since you seem to be either in Jomtiem or Walking St, I thought signal would not be a problem.

[Gabor 296]

Why have you left True out of the picture?

 

 

 

Their website is not farang friendly

[MM 6,562]

I started with DTAC 10 years ago, then switched to TRUE, which was quite good IMHO. DTAC seems to have a lot of dead spots for mobile data on Walking Street, where I spend a lot of my time, especially all up Soi Diamond. TRUE was much better for coverage around Pattaya and even up in Issan.

 

Also, TRUE had/has a fairly extensive WIFI network around Pattaya and Jomtien that worked on the basis of my IMEI rather than logging in, so whenever I was near a strong enough TRUE WIFI node, I had an internet connection (no need to log in).

 

Though TRUE's coverage was better than my experience with DTAC, I still found some dead spots for mobile data around WS. A couple of my crawl mates both had 1-2-Call, and did have signals...also TRUE was spotty in my home for about a month, and I was getting pissed off at their slow response to fixing that.

 

So, last year, I switched to AIS and I've been generally quite happy with it...though I have had dead periods where I had EMERGENCY CALL ONLY for an hour or so occasionally.

 

Long and short...I prefer AIS and TRUE over DTAC, since I seldom make voice calls and rely on mobile data for communications.

 

Packages seem to be about the same price, so that's not really an issue.