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    Last one in, again

    Database, Published on 06/01/2010

    » Never in Thai history has a story that didn't happen so dominate the news and clearly emerge as the Technology Story of the Year; just before the New Year, your TOT flipped a switch that started providing bandwidth of the third-generation kind in a couple of obscure corners of Bangkok, but in truth, 2009 was the year that Laos and Cambodia totally humiliated the telecoms state enterprises by leaving Thailand a far, distant last among Asian countries providing 3G service to yuppiephone subscribers.

  • TECH

    Forum discusses ways to break cycle of poverty

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 12/05/2010

    » ISLAMABAD : Islamabad was home to the expert meeting on mobile 2.0 applications and conditions, jointly hosted by think-tank LIRNEasia and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. In this forum academics, operators and regulators from the telecommunication, IT and financial sectors gathered together to share their research and experience on how a new generation of mobile applications can benefit the poor at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) from micro-finance, agricultural, public transport or even social networking.

  • TECH

    Stop 3G trials - or else

    Database, Published on 09/06/2010

    » Your CAT Telecom explained to No 3 yuppiephone firm True Move that it needs to stop its 3G trials or face charges of breaching its concession agreement; the letter came as a surprise, apparently as a result of an announcement by the Magnificent Seven that they probably will not issue any licences for that old, out-of-date 3G telephone operation anymore - but for 3.9G service, about 20 times as fast; member Natee Sukolrat of the National Telecommunications Commission said 3.9G specs should be ready by the end of the year, long before any 3G licence is likely; True Move has been trying out 3G service on the 850MHz spectrum owned by CAT.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Heavy industry relocation to Burma?

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 15/11/2010

    » With industrial projects suspended at Map Ta Phut recently, the city of Dawei in Burma near Southern Thailand is looking more attractive for heavy industry projects.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Mekong smuggling

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 16/11/2010

    » Stolen trucks, motorcycles, drugs, endangered species of wildlife, as well as wine, liquor, sandstone, rosewood, all these goods slip into Thailand along the long Mekong river border with Laos.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    African drug gangs target Thai women

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 14/02/2011

    » African drug gangs offer riches and comfort to young Thai woman who then are used to transport drugs internationally.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Thai chicken meat needed in Japan

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 21/03/2011

    » Thai-Japanese long-term business partnerships come in handy in an emergency.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Fuel subsidies, low energy efficiency

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 03/05/2011

    » With diesel fuel subsidized at 18% below market prices, food export revenues are guzzled up by oil imports.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Dumping cases and ASEAN economic integration

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 12/05/2011

    » ASEAN economic integration by 2015 will require cooperation. Dumping cases impede progress. Opening markets hastens progress.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Rice market uncertainty and the election

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 21/06/2011

    » If Pheu Thai wins the election and sets rice prices far above market prices, international orders might go elsewhere.

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