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| Country’s Infrastructures |
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| Telecommunications and Media |
 Telecommunication services in Thailand are on par with international standard, especially in urban areas such as Bangkok. There are two fixed line service provider in Bangkok: Telephone Organization of Thailand (TOT), a state enterprise, and Telecom Asia (TA) , a private company. Fixed line for offices and residences are abundance and phones can be installed usually in a few days. Local call charge is at 3 baht per call. Outside Bangkok area, phone services are provided by TOT and another private company, TT&T Public Co., Ltd. All these providers combined networks to over 8 million lines available with about 7.1 million lines in use.
International call services in Thailand are also at an international level. Direct connections to almost every country are provided by the Communication Authority of Thailand (CAT). Since the beginning of the year 2004, there was significant decrease in international rates to many countries around the world. Mobile phones services are also plentiful. There are 3 service providers utilizing GSM technology: Advance Info Service (AIS), Total Access Communication (DTAC), and TA Orange. Further more, there is one CDMA provider, Hutch, and one Digital PCS provider, Thai Mobile. Therefore, mobile phones in Thailand are easily available at competitive price and wide range of options. Most of the providers have both prepaid and subscription option as choices for customers. Mobile phone subscribers has been growing in number quite rapidly from less than 2 million in 1997 to about 15 million in January 2004.
As for internet connection service, there are 18 commercial ISPs, and 5 non-commercial providers providing services to about 4 million personal and corporate account nationwide. Connections available in the country are range from 56K dial-up to ISDN to broadband. Both prepaid and subscription service is available. About 10,000 domains are registered under “.th”.
Radio Broadcasting station in Thailand are summed up to the number of 334 FM, 204 AM, and 6 shortwave stations. There are 7 free television broadcasting network, 5 of them are state own, and 1 cable TV broadcaster (broadcast through both satellite and cable) providing service throughout the country. | |
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