Penguin joining TOT in providing mobile phone services with nationwide coverage and becoming MVNO with various networks.

Wednesday 11 October 2017 15:30
TOT Public Company Limited has teamed up with The WhiteSpace Limited, mobile phone service provider or Penguin SIM, for a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) business model that will provide the best ever mobile phone service to Penguin customers on 2100 MHz, covering 3G platforms nationwide.

This cooperation makes Penguin, the MVNO service provider in Thailand with two frequencies available. It will certainly strengthen Penguin in terms of the overall quality of its network with enhanced signal stability, meeting the needs of customers.

Mr. Rungsan Channarukul, Senior Executive Vice President of the Wireless Business Unit of TOT Plc., is very pleased with this cooperation, which he said would certainly benefit Penguin customers. "The customers will benefit from a quality network. Moreover, this partnership will support the 20-year national strategy to lead the Country to Thailand's 4.0 era. TOT is determined to be the leader in establishing telecommunications infrastructures and we are open to joining hands with business partners. We're very pleased to be in partnership with Penguin".

Dr. Chaiyod Chirabowornkul, Chief Executive Officer of WhiteSpace, said: "We are very proud to have an opportunity to work with TOT to give customers high-quality services over the TOT network on the 2100 MHz frequency with nationwide coverage. We believe that it will allow us to effectively come up with various marketing campaigns and reach out to a wider base of customers. Our customers will have another option to use value-for-money, high-quality mobile network at very affordable rates. In addition, the door is more open to us now on the IOT (Internet of Things) Solutions. We hope that this partnership with TOT will be the first step towards fully realizing the potentials of the two organizations in the future. This also significantly supports the Government's Thailand 4.0 Policy.

To respond to the fast-growing mobile market, WhiteSpace will launch this service with TOT under "Penguin SIM" brand within this year. The

"Penguin SIM" will emphasize on economical fees, giving a new alternative to customers looking for value-for-money, honest and easy-to-use services. WhiteSpace plan to penetrate the prepaid mobile phone market through its nationwide sales channels.