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(16 September 2015) AIS reaffirms its status as the leader of Thailand’s network and digital service providers, taking things to the next step to extend our lead by upgrading “AIS mPAY” to “Digital Money for Everyone”. Anyone can use the service easily and fully all in one application. We are opening this service for everyone, Thais, foreigners and mobile phone users of every network, customers of every bank account, or even people without bank accounts. All you have to do is download the mPAY app, set up your PIN, and you’re good to go! New languages have been added to offer mobile payment convenience to foreigners in Thailand. Moreover, the “Friend Get Friend” campaign features monetary prizes of as high as 1,000 baht. Just get your friends to subscribe and make transactions through mPAY from today-31 Dec. 2015. We’re responding to the lifestyles of the new, online generation to support the growth of the e-commerce market.

mPAY offers complete mobile payment convenience on mobile phones, upgrading into the most popular app in the field of finance with over 2.5 million downloads. Most recently, a new system was developed to make subscriptions and usage easier. We guarantee the maximum safety standards to let everyone have the chance to access and use digital money with convenience at the tips of their fingers. We are creating new spending experiences for digital age consumers by featuring the following:

• We offer service to everyone. With no age limits, we support mobile phone users from every network, customers of every bank and even people without bank accounts. All you have to do is download the mPAY app now, set the 4-digit PIN, and you’re good to go.
• We offer the highest number of options for topping up money in mPAY wallets with over 50,000 branches nationwide. Most importantly, you get ten free top up transactions per month! And bank customers can top-up via the ATMs of eight banks, and customers without a bank account can top-up any AIS shops, Telewiz branch, Boonterm machines or mPAY STATIONS.
• We offer solutions to suit every lifestyle via-app bill payment, mobile phone bills, public utility bills, credit card bills, loan bills, insurance bills, game top-ups, AIS mPay Rabbit top-up, along with transfers, withdrawals and online purchases with our 24-hour services at the tips of your finger, altogether payments for a whopping 200+ merchants.
• The app has been developed to support many languages. We have Thai, English, Chinese and Burmese to offer financial transaction convenience for foreigners in Thailand.
• We are the first and only digital money service provider offering interest on your deposits. All you need to do is change over to Beat Banking accounts, which offers higher interests than ordinary savings accounts and earns interest every month.

Mr. Prattana Leelapanang, Executive Vice President- Marketing, AIS reveals, “With AIS’ vision to become the leading provider of digital services in Thailand, we aim to deliver beneficial digital networks and services for Thai people to live more. One of our key roles is as a provider of digital money services in all forms. We have been creating access opportunities to financial innovations (Fin Tech) for every Thai person since 2005. Thus, AIS became the first operator in the country to offer mobile payment services on mobile phones through our AIS mPay. And we are firmly committedto ongoing new developments in cooperation with our partners in the ecosystem to extend our services and always be the first to offer customers new products such as AIS mPAY, Master Card, online shopping cards, AIS mPAY Rabbit, changing your mobile SIMs into wallets, Beat Banking which upgrades your wallets into high-interest savings accounts, etc. We aim for AIS mPAY as a foundation Infrastructure for digital payment platforms for every online and offline business. We support the spending lifestyles of new consumers seeking convenience in paying their bills and making transfers, withdrawals and purchases of goods and services.”

“Apart from the development of mPAY as the advanced core of innovation to create diverse functions, today is another important step to extend our lead for mPAY services we welcome people of every level, every age without limits, in every network, every bank account and even without bank accounts. All you need is a mobile phone. Our subscription service has been made more convenient, faster and easier using only a 4-digit PIN code, which unlocks the old limitations where people might find making payments from mobile phones complicated and out of reach. Moreover, we have developed more languages for the app. We now have four: Thai, English, Chinese and Burmese, as we see the needs of foreigners living in Thailand, workers and tourists who need to make mobile payment such as transfers and so on. So, this campaign is broadening of our services for everyone to have their own digital money, delivering the digital life experience to everyone, supporting new services in the future and supporting the growth of e-commerce and online shopping in the Thai and world market concurrent with the country’s digital economy policy,” Pratthana concluded.