You can’t! I’m a us citizen to and the problem is that US carriers, T-Mobile and the like, lock your phone to their service only. You must have them unlock your phone and only then will the Thai SIM card work. I’ve experienced this myself many times until I bought an unlocked phone then went to Google-fi, and now I can’t call from anywhere around the globe, without a SIM card
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