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A small part of Bangla roadThai Sim Cards - Phoning Home
We use a Thai Happy Sim Card which is issued by Dtac and you can buy them at most 7/11's or phone shops.
The card cost us 49baht but there are different prices as some come with credit etc, you can buy refills from 20baht up to 800baht. We bought ours through a 7/11 and they will also set it up for you if you want.
In the Users manual that comes with the kit it tells you exactly what to do and how to make the cheapest International calls e.g. put in 008 or 009 then country code, area code and phone number.
You can choose 001 or 007 instead of the numbers I have mentioned above, these are for a supposedly high quality signal and have higher call rates, but we never had a problem with the signal using the 009 number.
To send messages is different to ringing, first put in + then country code, area code, and phone number.
So for each person here in Australia I would have 2 numbers for them, one for phoning, one for messages.
If you want to take your own phone and its locked there are phone shops that will unlock it for you at a small cost.
So some examples for phoning Australia to make use of the cheapest rates are:
If the Aussie landline number is 08 12345678
To ring drop the 0 and dial 009 61 8 12345678
For Aussie Mobile numbers e.g. 0412 345 678
To ring drop the 0 and dial 009 61 412 345 678
Messages - drop the 0 and dial +61 412 345 678
For someone ringing you in Thailand
Your new Thai mobile number will start with 08, so for anyone calling you from home they would drop the 0 and add in +66 then your new number (that’s when they are calling you from a mobile)
From a landline at home they would call you on 0011 - 66 - 76 - then the local number.
It’s extremely cheap to phone home using a Thai Sim Card, much better than using your own sim with International Roaming. Some examples of prices for mobile calls I made to Australia were 150baht for 20 minutes and messages 5 baht per message.
Hope this helps - just read your manual thoroughly as it tells you how to make the cheapest calls.
The link below will give you all the world calling codes etc:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/dialing.html?p2=1230
