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    Spotlight on fixed broadband

    Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 19/08/2022

    » National Telecom (NT), the state-owned telecom enterprise, is weighing options on how to handle its loss-making fixed broadband business, including the prospect of renting the infrastructure to other players to operate.

  • BUSINESS

    Year of Turbulence

    Asia focus, Published on 27/12/2021

    » Pandemic drags on recovery: In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, many Asian countries had enviable success, avoiding large-scale outbreaks and mass deaths. But the arrival of the more transmissible Delta variant this year and sluggish vaccine rollouts compounded by low availability sent cases surging. Combined with poor monitoring and easy movement among countries, often unofficially, Southeast Asia became a virus hotspot. The ballooning health crisis collided with churning political discontent in the case of Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. Economically, the new wave of infections, and attendant restrictions imposed to curb the spread, stalled recoveries. After nearly two years of strict border controls, many countries started to loosen up and live with Covid. But the rise of the Omicron variant now threatens to scuttle those tentative reopening plans and usher in a third year of economic anxiety.

  • BUSINESS

    Building a brand identity

    Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 05/02/2022

    » National Telecom (NT) is crafting a niche as an infrastructure-sharing provider, seeking partnerships to develop sustainable revenue streams in the future as its spectrum-sharing contracts with three major mobile operators are slated to expire in 2025.

  • BUSINESS

    5G at the heart of Thailand's future

    Business, Janine Phakdeetham, Published on 19/10/2021

    » 5G technology is turning Thailand around with the value of 5G-driven business and services expected to hit 650 billion baht by 2030, and the ultrafast internet service playing an instrumental role in the push for S-curve industries in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) area, say key figures in state and private sectors.

  • BUSINESS

    Digital hub status 'within reach'

    News, Published on 12/11/2020

    » Thailand is setting its sights on boosting its digital infrastructure and creating an ecosystem that will position it as the digital hub of Asean, a seminar was told on Wednesday.

  • BUSINESS

    Undersea cable plan axed

    Business, Published on 17/09/2016

    » The government has finally ordered the termination of the 5-billion-baht national submarine cable construction project after clearly proving that it violates the Budget Bureau's procurement rules.

  • BUSINESS

    Telecom speakers advise digital readiness

    Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 14/08/2020

    » The readiness of the country's digital infrastructure is imperative to drive the country's digital economy and competitiveness, says CAT Telecom president Col Sanpachai Huvanandana.

  • BUSINESS

    The path to National Telecom

    Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 09/03/2020

    » The merger of TOT and CAT into a new company, called National Telecom (NT), is believed to be the government's final push to provide a lifeline to the two state telecom enterprises.

  • BUSINESS

    Uttama urges TOT, CAT reform

    Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 12/10/2015

    » The two telecom state enterprises must seriously reform themselves into a network sharing provider by aggregating telecom assets and developing an infrastructure pool to generate a new revenue stream after the end of the concession era, says the ICT Minister.

  • BUSINESS

    Pentagon to test self-sailing vessel

    Business, Published on 04/05/2016

    » SAN DIEGO: It's not only drones and driverless cars that may become the norm someday -- ocean-faring ships might also run without captains or crews.

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