BANGKOK, Sept 19 – As Thailand lags behind a number of Asian countries in implementing third generation (3G) wireless service, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Sunday his government would push related telecoms laws through the current parliamentary session. Speaking during his weekly TV and radio address, Mr Abhisit said he hoped that a clearer picture […]
Dr Ajong Chumsai na Ayudhya, a Thai scientist who has worked with the US space agency Nasa in the past, said yesterday that the areas around the Gulf of Thailand would be hit by tsunamis and that Bangkok would be under water in less than seven years. At a seminar yesterday about the impact of […]
Injunction order says licence auctioneer NTC itself in transition; Planned auction on Monday hinges on NTC’s appeal today against verdict The Central Administrative Court has hampered hopes for the long-overdue 3G (third generation) telecom development in Thailand in the near future with a bombshell injunction on the licence auction scheduled to kick off on Monday. […]
Thailand’s three major mobile operators will compete for two licenses in auction that starts next week. Excessive competition for Thailand’s third-generation mobile phone licenses will likely drive up fees for carriers and pressure earnings of the country’s major telecom operators in the near term. Units of Advanced Info Service PCL, Total Access Communication PCL and […]
Apple underlined the importance it sees in the Chinese market today by announcing that it is launching the iPad on Friday, this week. According to their announcement the WiFi only version is the only model they plan to sell. The 16, 32 and 64GB models will retail at CNY3988, CNY4788 and CNY5588 respectively. Making the […]
BANGKOK, 13 September 2010 (NNT) – The three mobile service giants — AIS, DTAC and TrueMove — have been given the green light to participate in the 3G license bidding, according to the National Telecommunication Commission (NTC). The NTC on Monday announced that the three mobile service provider companies were eligible to bid in the […]
CAT Telecom says it will sue the National Telecommunications Commission in the Administrative Court for conducting the 3G licence auction without having the authority to do so, and causing it to lose 15 billion baht a year as a result. It will also request a court injunction preventing the auction set for Sept 20 pending […]
We are expecting to be able to pre-order the iPhone 4 next week at True, DTAC and AIS websites with an expected release date in Thailand of 24th September. Of course these are just rumours at the moment but AIS have just joined the club this afternoon by putting up a splash page on their […]
