• TECH

  The final nail, not a new era

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 01/12/2010

  » As Thailand celebrates one year of ToT's 3G network, others will mourn the passing of the Frequency Allocation Act. Instead of marking the beginning of a new dawn in Thailand's telecommunications saga, the act marks the final nail in the coffin for our short-lived attempts to reform the telecommunications sector from a 90s-style state-run concession to a modern, deregulated licensed one.

• TECH

  Categorising the world's websites

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 17/11/2010

  » Blue Coat has launched a new traffic-shaping appliance aimed at giving IT departments visibility as to what is personal, what is business and what is the grey area in between, now that everything from games to social networks to corporate enterprise applications are accessed via Internet browsers over the HTTP protocol.

• TECH

  Why kickbacks are holding us all back

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 08/12/2010

  » Think of Thailand and while beaches and massages might come to mind, what of IT? It is a niche, yet there is so much going on under the radar in this country.

• TECH

  Challenges ahead for telco firms

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 29/12/2010

  » The new Frequency Allocation Act has failed to keep up with technology according to an NTC commissioner while all the major telcos agree that concession conversion is needed for a level playing field and to prepare the industry for imminent AFTA and WTO trade liberalisation.

• TECH

  Confusion reigns over three-point-whatever

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 15/09/2010

  » Just what is 3.9G? To most of the world, 3.9G means LTE, long term evolution, but for Thai people 3.9G is a vague concept of 42MBPS, but quite what technology it is seems to be beyond most of the people I asked at the 3.9G Thailand Human DNA event.

• TECH

  Fixing the broken ISP model

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 25/08/2010

  » The business model for providing Internet services is broken. Content owners are paying specialist content delivery networks more and more to deliver content which consumers expect for free, leaving the ISP squeezed in the middle with no incentive to invest in more infrastructure to improve quality of service needed for video. That is, until a small British company suddenly found itself in a unique position with the right technology at the right time to fix it.

• TECH

  The converging conference

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 27/10/2010

  » Avaya has taken the consumer web and launched a portfolio of business-centric services which will soon give corporations a level of versatility and ease of use that have long evaded corporate users - until now.

• TECH

  Peering through the dust that's settled over 3G

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 06/10/2010

  » So now that the 3G dust is settling, one is left to ponder what happened. Finally, after almost two years of dithering, ToT is moving ahead with its 3G network.

• TECH

  Amendments needed to avert 3G disaster

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 21/07/2010

  » It will be a disaster if the 3G bid goes ahead now without amendments. Operators have a choice either to boycott the auction, or to sign a document they have no intention of abiding by - in other words, doing things the Thai way. The problem stems from three clauses added at the last moment, after the last hearing and appearing in the final draft for the auction information memorandum (IM) calling for the return of frequency; for no core network and for no roaming from 2G to 3G.

• TECH

  Time to wake up and start running

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 28/07/2010

  » State domain assets. That word last popped up in anger during the privatisation of PTT, the Electricity Generation Authority of Thailand. A group of activists, led by now Bangkok Senator Rosana Tositrakul launched a legal challenge arguing that while PTT, as a company, could be sold off and privatised, the assets which it had acquired as through its expropriate power as part of the state through its dual role as both a government agency and an operator were to be retained by the state.

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