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Quash greed for 5G success
News, Editorial, Published on 04/11/2019
» The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission's (NBTC) rush to push for the availability of ultra-high-speed 5G wireless technology has surprised telecom operators who said the move came sooner than anticipated.
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An S44 order too many
News, Editorial, Published on 16/04/2019
» In what has been branded abuse of power, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has invoked the all-powerful Section 44 to delay payments by the three big mobile players and bail out digital TV operators from their financial obligations.
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Tackling the 'lone wolves'
News, Editorial, Published on 18/03/2019
» The worst massacre of innocents in eight years occurred in peaceful Christchurch on Friday. In a 36-minute orgy in two separate mosques, 50 people were shot dead. A definitely demented but functioning man created an unwatchable Facebook video as he killed from close range. Heroes emerged from the mosque mats and in police ranks, but the worst of the killer's work was done.
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NLA must show it is free from meddling
News, Editorial, Published on 22/04/2018
» The decision of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) on Thursday to reject the final list of 14 proposed candidates put forward as prospective National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) board members has raised several questions.
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NBTC must tread carefully
News, Editorial, Published on 21/12/2017
» Amid mounting calls from digital TV operators and 4G licence auction winners for Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to invoke the all-powerful Section 44 to ease their "financial burdens", both the state telecom regulator and the government need to tread carefully on this issue.
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Let the TV market decide
News, Editorial, Published on 29/11/2017
» The government has acted properly in refusing to use taxpayers' money to fund the digital TV operators who claim to be losing money. That is not to say, however, that the station owners don't have a point. The government and, especially, the telecommunications regulators have performed poorly, to understate the situation. Even if the public doesn't bail out the desperate stations, it will lose out in the end anyhow.
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Driver education finally in focus
News, Editorial, Published on 16/10/2016
» With little fanfare earlier this month, the Transport Ministry announced a national road safety plan full of reasonable ideas that completely missed the point. Reported in last Sunday's newspaper, the action plan called for improvements to traffic management, road designs and crash barriers, vehicle safety systems and emergency service responses. Speed limits may be changed, although this will be left to the discretion of local authorities. Interprovincial passenger vans will be equipped with cameras, speed monitoring devices and an anti-distraction system.
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