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Parties need to work together to break deadlock
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 28/07/2010
» Four parties need to work together to break the deadlock in the telecommunications sector and allow the 3G auction to achieve its full potential, according to a leading think-tank.
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.
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.
Johnsen calls for clarification
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 21/07/2010
» There is a need to restructure the telco industry and move on from the era of concessions and revenue sharing. It should happen now, before the 3G auction, as the cost of proceeding with an auction on top of this regulatory mess now to fix it at a later date will be much higher than a six-month delay today.
Intel keen to promote broadband
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 23/06/2010
» WiMAX is the only technology mature enough to do the job of Broadband Wireless Access and help bridge the digital divide, according to Kevin Lim, Intel WiMAX Managing Director for the region.
The few hopes and many frustrations of a telco boss
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 16/06/2010
» Everything stopped after the latest round of public hearings. The key points that have led to the delay are the mixed political signals regarding concession conversion (ending 2G concessions and turning them into licenses) and the migration to 3G, and the effect this would have on the revenue streams of CAT and ToT. Then there was the question of the legitimacy and power of the caretaker National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). This had to be referred to the Council of State and things got bogged down there.
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.
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.
Allocation and revenue issues across the spectrum
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 19/05/2010
» Software defined radio and cognitive radios are changing the way regulators should tackle spectrum allocation, allowing shared use of frequency and even peer-to-peer self-forming networks.
Research disproves preconceptions about BOP
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 19/05/2010
» Presenting research by student Tahani Iqbal of the Lee Kuan Yew school of public policy, National University of Singapore, who was engaged in exams, Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia CEO showed how research into teleuse at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) has disproved many assumptions about mobile number portability that were learned from developed countries.