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Disappoint people at a rate they can endure
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 10/11/2010
» I wonder what Professor Jamison would think of our beloved National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). Quite a bit, I am sure, but he was tight-lipped when I asked him as he also works for the seven great ones in a consultancy position. Let's see.
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Venezuela passes media, Internet-muzzling law
AFP, Published on 21/12/2010
» The Venezuelan parliament passed a law banning for the first time Internet content that promotes social unrest, challenges authority or condones crime, fueling outrage by the opposition.
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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.
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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.
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Taxing woes
Database, Published on 20/10/2010
» Cabinet approved a draft law for a "green tax" on all industries, to kick in by 2012; there is still some work to do but proposed rates are in the neighbourhood of 10,000 baht per tonne of waste water, 2,500 baht per tonne of emissions and 15 percent of 1,000 baht per tourist; Big Business enthusiastically welcomed the environmental tax proposal, but had a couple of teensy weensy little worries, hardly worth mentioning but still... such as about consumer resistance when they push the new taxes onto the public because no way will business absorb the costs; and also there's unfairness of, say, shops along the Chao Phraya dumping pollution and not having to pay any tax; also, there is concern over calling tourists "pollution"; but really, all in all, an excellent idea.
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After the deluge
Database, Published on 03/11/2010
» As soon as the first five videos alleging misconduct by the Constitution Court appeared on YouTube, police opened a criminal investigation _ to find whoever uploaded them.
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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.
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Controversy over telecoms act
Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 09/06/2010
» The long-awaited National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) law, which passed senate approval late last month, contains some controversial issues that may set back development in new convergence technology services, especially the number of commission members, inflexible details, an "auction"-only licence acquisition model and the lack of coverage of new media and internet technology.
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Out of the blue
Database, Published on 17/02/2010
» PM's Office Minister Sathit Wongnongtoey decided right out of the blue to call on the Magnificent Seven to get their act together and press ahead with an auction of third-generation phone bandwidth, and to heck with the consequences, constitution and so on; the National Telecommunications Commission, in his opinion, needs to move along because the public needs 3G. The National Telecommunications Commission chuckled at Mr Sathit, and made another decision to delay another project, this one the application by No 1 yuppiephone network Advanced Info Service of Shingapore to fire up its proposed roaming service with your TOT; the problem was so important that the NTC gave it to a deputy secretary, Thakorn Boonyasith, who said the proposed new TOT-AIS hookup could violate the terms of the old TOT-AIS concession; AIS wants to suck up most of the TOT's 3G bandwidth, such as it is, in return for which it will allow other customers to use AIS facilities for calls outside the small corner of Bangkok where 3G is actually available.
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Surprise wedding of the year goes awry
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 27/01/2010
» It could have been the surprise wedding of the year, but instead we had a runaway bride, not to mention the best man curiously absent.
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