Sarathi

Quick question - if I buy a motorola phone (MAXX) in the US without a carrier plan (i.e. without being tied to Verizon etc..). Will it work in Thailand with a regualr SIM card.


Thanks for your response and help

I signed up for AIS 3G last week, and it is not bad. Around center of town can get fairly decent web browsing most of the time, though on Suk 22 last week, it was taking 3-5 minutes to load each page. So forget a YouTube ... very hit and miss, but better than the 2G.
AIS package is 30 hours/month unlimited for 150 baht.

Then I got TrueMove H - the new blazing True 3g system started last week. Can't make a standing order to pay via the bank yet .... and took 20 hours for the sim to become active.
But speeds are pretty impressive. Youtubes come in at a pretty decent speed (which is my main test). Web browsing rivals my land line at home. Even gets 3G out on the Thonburi side of the river, and all the way up to Wang Noi (close to Ayuddhaya) - That's way beyond AIS, with speeds 5 o 10 times as fast.

Package is also 150 baht for 30 hours unlimited per month. http://www.truemove-...freetosurf.aspx

I believe that if you are travelling up country, AIS is still the best bet, as its nationwide coverage is superior to TRUE (I have not tested this). But can say for definite that around Bangkok, in September 2011,  True Move H blazes.

Hope that is of help to some of you

2 urgent questions.

Is there an immigration dept. in Phuket to extend a 2 month visa (not sure if it is non-imm or tourist) for an extra month?

Any nice cheap guest house you can recommend?

Got a sudden visitor who will be going to Phuket shortly.

thanks.

I heard that a product called Rain-X is wonderful for keeping greasy fingerprints off touchscreen devices. Has anyone seen this available? Or some other product?

Used to be that Chiang Mai was the centre for Buddhism, in English language at least. Looking at the calendar though : http://thai.calendars.net/sarathi/  seems like Bangkok is aserting its place. There is a packed schedule of tours, talks and workshops at differnet places/different groups.
Interesting that in  'Buddhist' country, the temples seem very passive, and never do anything in English. Also interesting that all the above events are not led by Thais. It is good that Bangkok has more to offer on its moral side, in juxtaposition to the seedy.