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Byline: Komsan Tortermvasana
Sep. 1--Thailand is preparing briefing papers for the technical round of the US-Thailand free trade area (FTA) agreement talks that will make clear the country will not open satellite-based international telecom services or direct broadcasting in the near future.
Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn, a commissioner of the National Telecommunications Commission, said Thailand will comply with an earlier World Trade Organisation ruling to open its telecommunications sector to foreign competition next year, but that liberalisation would be be in stages.
Satellite-based gateway services will likely be opened only in 2009, said Mr ...