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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.
The winding road to 4G
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 15/09/2010
» From a world with many technologies in 2G to one with a few in 3G, the world is moving towards LTE as a great harmonising standard. The standard for 1GBPS (that is 1,000MBPS) LTE, the speed that the ITU defines as 4G, is expected to be ratified this year and equipment available by 2014.
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.
Perhaps we can just skip 3G altogether?
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 18/08/2010
» Should we skip 3G and go straight for 4G? Or do we need to walk before we run and evolve? A couple of years ago, I was all for leapfrogging to 4G. Then, the telcos convinced me that 3G had economies of scale that could not be ignored. But more recently, the technical limitations of 3G are becoming more and more painful as smart phones get smarter and notebooks get more bandwidth-hungry.
NTC attempts to force out the squatters
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 16/06/2010
» Use it or lose it. That is the message the National Telecommunications Commission is telling ToT and other agencies who are now squatting on the lucrative 2.3GHz band, telling them to apply for 10-year licences and go commercial with Broadband Wireless Access via WiMAX soon, perhaps as early as September.
More pipe dreams
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 16/06/2010
» Sometimes it is not what they say, but how they say it. The NTC is pushing Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) and hopes for a roll-out as soon as September, but if the comments from the focus group were anything to go by, we can expect to continue waiting and praying for the foreseeable future.
After all the waiting games, Thailand looks set to leapfrog 3G
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 02/06/2010
» Thailand is going to leapfrog 3G entirely and go straight to 3.9G, according to newly appointed National Telecommunications Commissioner Dr Natee Sukonrat, who has burst on to the Twitter scene under his username of @DrNatee39G.
Telenor boosts its presence in Thailand
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 31/03/2010
» Telenor, parent company of Dtac, has stepped up its presence in Thailand and is launching a major corporate awareness campaign, partly to engage the government regulators at two levels as Thailand prepares for commercial 3G licensing.
Using existing networks to run 3G is too much like common sense
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 03/03/2010
» 3G auctions for the rest of us before the end of this year? Should we rejoice at the progress that the four new Knights of Truffle and Cupcake, sorry, National Telecommunication Commissioners, have made, or is one to despair at the naivete that such talk brings? The problem is not so much about pushing ahead with 3G, but what to do with the existing 2G infrastructure.