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TAT, AIS team up on domestic travel drive
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 23/05/2025
» The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has partnered with Advanced Info Service (AIS) to launch the Sukjai Travel Thailand – Aunjai Everywhere campaign, aiming to spark a new wave of domestic tourism this year.
NT targets 100,000 free WiFi hotspots by end of next year
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 16/11/2021
» National Telecom (NT), through its newly established subsidiary NT iBuzz, plans to provide 100,000 free public WiFi hotspots across the country by the end of next year.
Leaving the nest
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 25/01/2021
» The much-awaited merger of state telecom enterprises TOT and CAT Telecom finally happened on Jan 7 and a myriad of challenges lie ahead for National Telecom (NT), ranging from organisational management to sustainable revenue.
National Telecom urged to focus on infrastructure
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 16/01/2021
» The chief executive of a major mobile operator who requested anonymity says the newly formed National Telecom (NT) should focus on telecom infrastructure-sharing and serving the government's public-concentrated Universal Service Obligation (USO) projects, rather than joining the contentious telecom service battle.
DES pushes digital community centres
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 25/08/2020
» The Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry is gearing up efforts to support 2,000 digital community centres nationwide to facilitate public service access and online learning to help people have greater opportunity in the online economy.
DES grilled over high WiFi scheme budget
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 11/02/2020
» The Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry has come under heavy fire after it sought a high budget of 7.5 billion baht for the five-year maintenance of its WiFi hotspot project covering 24,700 remote villages, known as the Net Pracharat scheme.
Thailand Post waives festive mail charges
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 24/12/2019
» Thailand Post will waive postage charges for New Year's cards and letters from Dec 25 to Jan 5 to rekindle the traditional way of sending best wishes via the written word as well as boost the company's image, says Digital Economy and Society (DES) Minister Buddhipongse Punnakanta.
Digital Economy and Society Ministry monitoring 'suspicious' accounts
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 27/08/2019
» About 10 accounts on social media platforms are being monitored for suspicion of generating and sharing fake news that could affect the public, says Buddhipongse Punnakanta, minister of Digital Economy and Society (DE).
NBTC subsidising border broadband
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 26/12/2018
» The telecom regulator plans to provide a three-year subsidy worth 4 billion baht for fixed broadband service to 600,000 households in border villages from May 2019, aiming to bridge the digital divide in remote areas.
Net Pracha Rat seeks to connect all villages by May
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 13/08/2018
» By next May, villagers nationwide will be able to use free WiFi hotspots after the completion of the second phase of the government's national broadband network for villages.