January 1, 2017
– dtac reveals that “Facebook” tops the most popular application
list during the New Year’s holiday, followed by Instagram and LINE.
dtac has prepared its network for the New Year’s holiday with a 24-hour
support team to ensure network availability and offered free WiFi to
postpaid and prepaid customers as well as the public.
Mr. Prathet
Tankuranun, Chief Technology Officer, Total Access Communication
PLC or dtac said, “Our statistics shows that the top 5 provinces with
the highest data usage during the year-end season to the New Year’s
holiday are 1. Bangkok 2. Chonburi 3. Samut Prakarn
4. Pathum Thani and 5. Nonthaburi. Meanwhile, the 5 most popular
applications are 1. Facebook/Facebook Messenger 2. Instagram 3.
LINE/LINE VOIP 4.WhatsApp and 5. Twitter. The peak hour period is from
20:00 hrs. – 20:30 hrs. of December 31, 2016 (data as of
07:00 hrs. on January 1, 2017).”
To
get its network ready for the upcoming New Year’s holiday, dtac has
prepared mobile BTS, signal boosters, and parameter tuning to cope
with heavy data traffic and customers’ mobile demands during the New
Year’s holiday, especially at major transportation hubs, including
airports and bus terminals filled with passengers travelling back to
their hometown and tourists heading to destinations
in northern, northeastern, central, eastern, and southern Thailand, and
other congested events such as cross-year prayers across Bangkok and
other provinces.
“In
addition to giving customer reassurance of network coverage, dtac
offers free WiFi access to both postpaid and prepaid customers for
12 days from December 23, 2016 to January 3, 2017. Customers can sign
up for the free WiFi service by calling *104*60# and access dtac WiFi
network at over 150 leading department store nationwide, top
universities, 23 BTS stations, Mo Chit Bus Terminal, and
terminal areas of 6 major airports, including Suvarnabhumi, Don Muang,
Chiang Mai, Phuket, and Hat Yai,” said Prathet.
dtac free WiFi is also available to non-dtac customers who can check coverage areas at
www.dtac.co.th/wifi and login to @dtac wifi and complete a registration process.
