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Former Thai Partners Now Compete for Fixed-Line Telephone Service Market.
Byline: Mongkol Jullayothin
Jan. 1--When it comes to mobile-phone services, size does not always matter, as the two formidable state telecommunications agencies have found out the hard way in recent years.
A decade ago, the Telephone Organisation of Thailand and the Communications Authority of Thailand started out big as both regulators and operators of the service.
The TOT and the CAT were competing head-on through two private companies to which they had granted cellular concessions.
But due to a rigid bureaucratic management style, the mobile services provided by the state agencies gradually lost their charm in the eyes of customers, ...
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...country from next month. TOT has approached TT&T and TelecomAsia (TA) to join the promotion. TOT president Sittichai Songpiriyakit...had suggested 20 percent and TOT 40 percent during the talks. TA opted out of the promotion...
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- Newspaper article from: Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand) April 11, 2005 700+ words
...earlier consulted with TOT, CAT Telecom, True Corporation and TA Orange about the numbering...meeting, he recalled, TOT promised to allocate...million unused numbers to TA Orange. But nothing...president, said TOT could not allocate new numbers to TA Orange until the latter...
Source: HighBeam Research, Former Thai Partners Now Compete for Fixed-Line Telephone Service...