AIS denies involvement in illegal provision of internet service to Cambodia

Advance Info Service (AIS), a major mobile phone and internet service provider in Thailand, has denied that it had anything to do with one of its corporate customers allegedly and illegally transmitting internet signals from a base in Aranyaprathet district, Sa Kaeo province, to the Cambodian border town of Poipet.

Instead, the company claims that it is a victim of the illegal act, adding that they immediately terminated the service contract with that customer once it had been notified by the police.

Insisting that it operates a firm policy of not to transmitting internet signals to neighbouring countries, AIS said that it has cooperated fully with the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) after it was discovered by the police and military that a server, installed in a house near the Cambodian border, had transmitted signals to Poipet, allegedly to facilitate the operations of transnational cyber scam gangs.

According to the CIB, two companies, VIETTEL and ALT, are implicated in the illegal transmission of internet signals to Cambodia.