BANGKOK, Dec 6 – Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has threatened to revoke the third-generation (3G) wireless licences for any of the three bid winners who refuse to lower mobile phone service fees by 15-20 per cent, a commission executive said. NBTC secretary general Takorn Tantasit said the NBTC will meet today and […]
A group of Indian Tourists along with their Thai Tour Guide reported an alleged assault by a Deckchair Operator based on Larn Island on Thursday. The operator and the tourists made their way to Pattaya Police Station to report the incident which included the documenting of alleged injuries caused to one of the Indians by […]
BANGKOK, 5 February 2012 (NNT) – The seaside city of Pattaya was awarded the number 1 Asia Golf Destination of the Year 2012 at the International Golf Travel Market in Belek, Turkey, held at the end of last year. Mayor of Pattaya Ithiphol Kunplome explained that the award was voted for by the members of […]
Thailand’s security authorities and police searched the grounds of Parliament after a hoax call was received, threatening that a bomb was planted there. However, after an extensive search, the parliament building was cleared of any bomb threat. A telephone operator at Parliament told police that she received a call from a man claiming that there […]
Regulator says licensing process will begin next year at earliest pending resolution of legal issues. Thailand’s telecommunications and broadcasting regulator expects to auction off licenses to operate the frequency spectrum used for third-generation mobile phone services in the first quarter of 2012 at the earliest after outstanding legal issues are resolved, an acting member of […]
The Tourism Department reveals the results of a survey of Thai tourism saying that problems of illegal tour operators and taxi drivers needs to be resolved quickly in order to improve the tourism industry. According to a survey conducted by 5,000 local and foreign tourists around Bangkok, the Tourism Department Director-General, Surapol Sripan says the […]
CAT Telecom has further kept Total Access Communication from launching a commercial third-generation telecommunications service after DTAC has been waiting for such permission for many years. CAT’s board yesterday rejected DTAC’s request, pending its readiness to accept the condition that it would not seek compensation from CAT for possible losses on its 3G service investment […]
The Information and Communications Technology Ministry is pushing ahead with plans to sell the mobile concessions of Advanced Info Service to a group of foreign telecom giants if compensation negotiations fail. “We are in preliminary talks with eight international telecom firms and they all expressed interest in taking over the mobile operations of the country’s […]
