NTT is to resell Nokia's private cellular and edge cloud system to a total addressable market of 3.2 million enterprises in Thailand – in line with the country's Thailand 5.0 scheme
Global system integrator NTT is to resell Nokia's private cellular and edge compute...
A consumer advocacy group and the opposition political party want to stop the merger in its tracks
Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) on Thursday voted to approve the merger of True Corp and DTAC. Despite the NBTC’s ruling, it looks like the True/DTAC...
Taiwanese telecoms operator Chunghwa Telecom has deployed a private 5G network for local electronics manufacturer Delta Electronics, in conjunction with state-owned telecommunications company National Telecom, formerly TOT PCL, and MVNO and IoT airtime provider The WhiteSpace. The network has been installed at Delta Electronics’...
The merged entity would control more than half of the total market at about 95.3 million subscribers
A merger between Thailand’s True and Telenor-owned dtac, first proposed in November 2021, has officially been approved by the boards of both companies. The merged entity would control...
Japanese manufacturing group Mitsubishi Electric has inducted country-mate NTT Docomo into its new Industry 4.0 alliance in Thailand in order to offer private 5G with smart manufacturing solutions from other partners. Mitsubishi Electric called it “the first case of private 5G with Japanese equipment”...
AIS launched 5G standalone services in July 2020
Thai mobile service provider Advanced Info Service Plc. (AIS) has partnered with Chinese smartphone manufacturer vivo to run 5G Standalone (SA) network tests in Thailand.
This is the first time that vivo has stepped outside of China to participate...
Mavenir is working with state-owned National Telecom Public Company Limited (NT) in Thailand to make Ban Chang, in Thailand, the “first” smart city to deploy private 5G based on open RAN infrastructure. Cisco and local firm 5GCT, focused on 5G in the smart city...
dtac will deploy its 5G network on the 700 MHz band
Thai communications service provider dtac has selected Ericsson’s 5G RAN products and solutions for a coverage area in which nearly half of Thailand’s 70 million population resides. Specifically, Ericsson’s solutions will support dtac 5G...
Paramedics wear AR glasses to transmit images in real time to the hospital
Thailand’s True Corporation and the Nopparat Rajathanee Hospital in Bangkok's Kannayao district are supporting the deployment of 5G technology in ambulances to make it possible for EMTs to better prepare patients for...
Ericsson currently has 31 live networks in 17 countries
Thai mobile service provider True Corporation has selected Ericsson as a 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) vendor as part of its national 5G network, which will operate on 700 MHz, 2.6 GHz and 26 GHz frequencies in...
Robots will be distributed to 20 hospitals that provide care for COVID-19 patients, said AIS exec
Recent numbers reveal that Thailand has reported a total of 2,369 COVID-19 cases and 30 fatalities since January, and while faring better than some, the country is still fighting...
NBTC Secretary-General: 'Overall 5G network investment in Thailand could reach more than $4 billion this year'
Thailand's telecoms regulator The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) held the country’s 5G spectrum auction over the weekend, raising 100.52 billion baht ($3.2 billion) as operators grabbed 48...
The operator has to pay first installment due from LTE spectrum auction by March 21
Thailand's telecom regulator NBTC threatened to file a lawsuit against local mobile operator Jasmine International if the company fails to pay the first installment of the THB 75 billion ($2.1...
Overall SoftBank revenue expands 7.9% year-over-year
Japanese mobile operator SoftBank ended the third quarter of fiscal year 2015 with 31.68 million mobile subscribers in the country, up from 31.17 million in the same period last year. Net additions during the quarter totaled 74,000.
SoftBank offers TDD-LTE...
Each carrier will operate 10 megahertz in the 900 MHz band for provisioning 4G LTE services
Thai mobile operators True Move and Jasmine both won licenses to operate spectrum in the 900 MHz band; and each of the winning telcos obtained a block of 10 megahertz,...
Thai mobile operators paid $2.25B for 1800 MHz licenses
Thai mobile operators AIS and True won two licenses in the 1800 MHz band put up for bid by Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission.
The two-day auction raised a total of THB 80.8 billion...
French telecom equipment provider Alcatel-Lucent announced a four-year deal with Thailand's True Corporation to provide an IP transport network integrating True’s mobile, cable and Internet services and allowing for expansion of LTE services.
True claims to be the only carrier in Thailand to offer LTE...
XY Mobile | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
The Red Herring selection committee has chosen XY Mobile, as an exceptional candidate to become a 2011 Red Herring 100 Asia Finalist.
Vientiane, Laos PDR, 27 July, 2011: The Laos company, XY Mobile, who provides affordable mobile...
XY Mobile | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
The Red Herring selection committee has chosen XY Mobile, as an exceptional candidate to become a 2011 Red Herring 100 Asia Finalist.
Vientiane, Laos PDR, 27 July, 2011: The Laos company, XY Mobile, who provides affordable mobile...
TrueMove | June 14, 2011 | Press Release
TRUEMOVE FILES A REPORT WITH THE CRIME SUPPRESSION DIVISION TO INITIATE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST DTAC, WHICH HAS A FOREIGN STATE ENTERPRISE AS A MAJOR SHAREHOLDER, FOR OPERATING A BUSINESS NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE THAI LAW
Bangkok: June 14, 2011...
Bangkok Post | May 31, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana
Thaicom Plc, the country's sole private satellite operator, has unconditionally decided to build a sixth satellite despite receiving no incentives or a concession period extension.
However, the company, founded by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, hopes to raise...
The Bangkok Post | April 21, 2011 | Suchit Leesa-nguansuk
CAT Telecom is moving more aggressively into mobile broadband and cloud computing services this year in a bid to offset declining concessions and international call revenue.
The state telecom enterprise has allocated a budget of 1.2 billion...
Bangkok Post | April 20, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana and Suchit Leesa-Nguansuk
ZTE Corporation has withdrawn a court case seeking to block the award of a contract by TOT Plc for a 16-billion-baht nationwide 3G network expansion.
The move by the Chinese telecom equipment maker could allow...
The Nation | April 5, 2011
Telecom operators began charging a mobile number portability (MNP) service fee of Bt99 per number transfer yesterday, said Premon Pinsakul, chairman of Clearinghouse Co.
The five telecom operators soft-launched the service free of charge last December. MNP enables mobile-phone users...
