A bit of help please.
Making my first visit to Thailand for almost a year, all business and no pleasure and only for five days . I need to either reactivate my mobile phone with Orange or get hold of another sim card.

2 questions:
1) My phone has not been registered since the new ruling about registering sim cards so can anywhere that sells sim cards (7-11 for example) register it, if not where is my closest place to do so, I am staying at the Dusit Bangkok?

2) Whilst it does not have to be on the Orange network I have always found it reliable so anyone know the nearest Orange outlet to Dusit?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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True Orange is now renamed True Move...the closest True/Move service outlet to Dusit is the ground floor of United Center on Silom, just past CP Tower and California Fitness...nearly opposite soi 6. Go to the phone-selling desk just inside the door and tell them you want an Orange sim card for Bht99, which includes Bht60 of calls. Give them the phone and let them do the setup(includes selecting one of a random sample of numbers)....there is absolutely no need to register anything (I think that regulation only applied in the south). If you do the same thing at an outlet at MBK for example, you will get the same service but have to pay Bht199. At the same Move/Orange outlet, you can access cake and tasty snacks and coffee at 50% "discount", plus cruise the inertnet at Bht40/hour with few cyber-nannies. Further more, if you do not use the entire one hour, you can use the same password and login name at a later date at any True outlet (MRT Metro Mall at Sukumvit plus a host of other locations) until the hour is used. No, I don't work for or own shares in True. Also, using TOT's 009 international access prefix, you can call US/Europe for Bht7/minute. They also have a 008 for Bht6/minute, but never have been able to figure it out.

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