ICT: Nationwide WiFi in 5 years

Published: 4 Aug 2012 at 10.00
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Public WiFi internet services will be available in key areas nationwide within the next five years, according to Information and Communication Technology Minister Anudit Nakornthap.

Speaking on the "Yingluck Government Meets the People" weekly talk show on NBT, Group Captain Anudit said his ministry planned to make WiFi available in 30% of the country’s...

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jgriff
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Discussion 12 : 05 Aug 2012 at 22.3512
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Please! Don't make me laugh.
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pointoffew
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Discussion 11 : 04 Aug 2012 at 19.5211
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The ICT ministry has, since long, a reputation for hindering, preventing information and I have no reason to believe a word of what they utter.
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Discussion 10 : 04 Aug 2012 at 17.1710
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yeah, free wifi.. with a speed of snail connection. might probably specific location
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Discussion 9 : 04 Aug 2012 at 16.249
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A lot of small prints i that statement.

.. but hey.. hand out free WiFi modems with hard-coded standard passwords + one year free Internet subscription and the market will take care of the rest..

.. the big problem??? no room for bribes..
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Discussion 8 : 04 Aug 2012 at 15.198
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Lies !
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naibandan

Discussion 7 : 04 Aug 2012 at 14.497
Quantity or quality.
Free but bad quality can ruin industry.
from iPhone application.
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Discussion 6 : 04 Aug 2012 at 11.196
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A very misleading statement and headline:
ICT: WIFI internet nationwide in 5 years

Information and Communication Technology Minister Anudit Nakornthap said on Saturday that the WIFI internet system will be made available in "key areas" nationwide within the next five years.

Certainly a huge difference when it is defined as "key areas", whatever that means. Probably means just small areas of a few cities. I seriously doubt it will be even close to nationwide unless a few small "key areas" in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Udorn and Phuket would be "nationwide".
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Discussion 5 : 04 Aug 2012 at 11.155
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No,WIFI will not be widely available in 5 years. In 5 years the budget will have disappeared and the WIFI plan totally forgotten about. The only thing this govt is good at is creating budgets, spending the money and having zero results. Spend some of the money on your Thai Olympic athletes. Maybe then in 4 years the country won't be such a huge international sports embarassment.
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Discussion 4 : 04 Aug 2012 at 10.574
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For free? I'll believe it when I see it. Years ago a foreign company offered to provide free internet access in Thailand. The offer was refused, since it would cut into the existing companies' income. I expect the same here.
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Discussion 3 : 04 Aug 2012 at 10.263
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Why so slow?
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