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 […]
Around the world, malaria, transmitted by mosquitoes, is the most significant parasitic disease of humans and claims the lives of more children worldwide than any other infectious disease. Most prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa, 98% of malaria infections, approximately 243 million cases every year, occur in Africa. An estimated 863,000 malaria deaths are among children in […]
Thailand will hold its most competitive, and probably most secretive, auction ever later this month when the country’s telecom giants vie for highly prized licences to provide third-generation (3G) services. Two of the first three 3G-2.1GHz-spectrum licences will be up for grabs at a starting price of Bt12.8 billion apiece when the bidding takes place […]
Car importer Win Win fails to gain approval for spectrum contest on lack of deposit. Thailand’s three major telecommunication companies have, via their units, been given initial approval to take part in the auction for licenses for third generation services, the National Telecommunication Commission, or NTC, said Tuesday. Advanced Wireless Network, a unit of Advanced […]
