Editing Advanced Info Service (section)

{{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 limited company|Public]]
| traded_as = {{SET|ADVANC}}
| fate = 
| predecessor = 
| successor = 
| founder = [[Thaksin Shinawatra]]
| foundation = {{start date and age|1986|04|24|df=yes}}<ref name="0956-1">{{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}}</ref>
| key_people = {{ubl|[[Vithit Leenutaphong]] (Chairman)|[[Somchai Lertsutiwong]] (CEO)}}
| location = [[Phaya Thai District|Phaya Thai]], [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]]<ref name="AIS-Contact">{{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}}</ref>
| locations = 
| area_served = [[Thailand]]
| industry = [[Telecommunications]]
| products = [[Mobile network]], [[Internet service provider]], [[Internet TV]]
| services = [[Mobile telephony]], [[Internet]]
| revenue = {{increase}} 180.89 billion [[Thai baht|baht]] (2019)<ref name="AIS">{{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}}</ref>
| operating_income = {{increase}} 37.40 billion baht (2019)<ref name =AIS/>
| net_income = {{increase}} 31.19 billion baht (2019)<ref name =AIS/>
| assets = {{decrease}} 289.67 billion baht (2019)<ref name =AIS/>
| equity = {{increase}} 69.39 billion baht (2019)<ref name =AIS/>
| owner = 
| num_employees = 10,586+ (2013)<ref>[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</ref>
| parent = [[Intouch Holdings]]
| divisions = 
| subsid = Triple T Broadband (3BB)<br>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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2018}} Founded in April 1986, AIS started off as a computer rental business.<ref>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</ref> In October 1990, it launched analog 900 [[megahertz|MHz]] mobile phone services with a 20-year monopoly concession from the [[TOT (Thailand)|Telephone Organization of Thailand (TOT)]], and later became the first company allowed to operate on the GSM-900 [[GSM frequency bands|frequency]].<ref>[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}}</ref> 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}}.<ref name="SETCompanyProfile">{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name=AIS-SP-00>{{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 }}</ref><ref name=AIS-SP-01>{{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}}</ref><ref name="SETMajorShareholder">{{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}}</ref>

Temasek bought the AIS brand through the 2006 [[Sale of Shin Corporation to Temasek Holdings|acquisition]] of the Shin Corporation from ousted former Prime Minister [[Thaksin Shinawatra]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

In February 2014, in a [[2013–14 Thai political crisis|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>