Top up credit refill service - now launched

Newly launched MobileTopup.com is the best place to topup you Thai SIM online.

Some of the features:

• New pricing - low 4% fee
• Reoccurring monthly billing 
• Fast - Saves you time and hassle
• New Thai Baht credit card processor

Is it for you?

If you are one of the 80 million people who have a Thai prepaid SIM card, you're going to need topup credit in order to pay for 3G / 4G Data, Voice and SMS.  Usually what you want to do is top of your mobile phone and then purchase a data plan.  Some countries have the idea of buying or adding minutes to your phone.  In Thailand the concept is more akin to adding money to your mobile wallet.  Once you have money on your mobile wallet, you can then purchase a data plan or even a calling or SMS plan.   The reason purchasing a data plan is a good idea because the all a cart usage of data is quite expensive.  You will pay approximately one Baht per megabyte, without a data plan.  That means one gigabyte would cost 1,000 THB.  If you bought a package of 1 GB it would cost you around 200 or 300 THB.

What is recurring billing?

As users move from voice and SMS services to purely data packages your monthly bill will become fixed at the price of your data package.  Mobiletopup.com has a feature that allows you to send the exact same amount the phone number of your choice each month.  Once you set up a monthly reoccurring billing profile your card on file will be charged on the date specified each month.  

Why bother with Post-Paid?

Postpaid contrast involve credit card authorizations and permits and open access to your credit card.  Basically you are giving the telecom company rights to charge you any amount that shows up on your bill whether it's correct or not.  With reoccurring prepaid billing you do not need to go to the hassles or risks of setting up a contract and billing arrangement with the mobile operator.  Once you set up your reoccurring billing profile mobiletopup.com, your phone will receive credit each month to pay for your data package.  

Moving to data only

Today it is almost possible to use a data only contract.  By data only we mean that voice calls and any messages are sent through data networks instead of through the cellular networks of the past.  If you're using FaceTime, Skype, Whatsapp, Line or Telegram, you are using voice and messaging through your data package.   Google's Fi project is an example of a great implementation of pay for what you use data and hopefully we'll see implemented all around the world.