3G bid depends on court

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Published: 12 Oct 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

The Central Administrative Court will rule on whether to take up a complaint against the third-generation (3G) wireless spectrum auction. If it accepts the case, Tuesday's auction will be postponed.

Anuparp: Exercising rights as a citizen

The court Thursday listened to complainant Anuparp Thiralarp, former president of the Thailand Telecommunication Management Academy, and executives of the National Broadcasting Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), the agency that is organising the auction.

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TryAgain
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Discussion 11 : 12 Oct 2012 at 19.4611
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The Current 3G is actually on 850mHz band for True and DTAC, and on 900mHz band for AIS. If you have ever used 3G on 2100mHz band you will know that the signal is much weaker than on the lower frequencies. Actually the 3G service on the existing frequencies is quite good.

If the phone companies were smart they would just fail to bid for the 2100mHz spectrum and save their money. This way they could force the regulators to provide the required frequencies for LTE (4G). Why invest a hundred billion baht on old technology.

That might also teach the Government a lesson in how markets operate. Unfortunately, this is Thailand where so many pockets are being lined that common sense carries absolutely no weight. So we are destined to be stuck in the last decade's technology.
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Discussion 10 : 12 Oct 2012 at 15.4510
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2G works fine for me.
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Discussion 9 : 12 Oct 2012 at 14.289
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The people to blame are those who concocted the contract.I also say the government should have predicted the potential income from this auction.The whole thing seems cloak and dagger to me. Transparent is a word I hear used and this is far from transparent.That is Anuparps gripe.Chang things afterwards come on a snowball has more chance in hell.
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Discussion 8 : 12 Oct 2012 at 12.128
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Thailand could be a great country, but it is so far behind everyone else now it will take years to catch up to the nearest 3 world country if ever,

I sometimes thing some Thais who hold all the cards are like children and if they can not get their own way they throw their toys out of the pram,

Every time I read theses story's children in the play groun springs to mind.
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Discussion 7 : 12 Oct 2012 at 10.497
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The correct way for Khun Anuparp to voice out his opinion to protect consumer rights is for him to bring this to the NTBC table. I am sure there will be other concerned NGOs like the Consumer Rights Group who will join in and form a formidable negotiation group to confront the NTBC. Certainly not go to the court unless he has other ulterior motives. He can even go to the ombudsman to pressure for changes to the NBTC regulations. I can't fault him for protecting consumer rights but I question his method which hinder Thailand IT progress.
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Discussion 6 : 12 Oct 2012 at 08.266
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The 3G in use is on the 800 to 850 mHz band and while it works it is nowhere as good as the 2.1 gHz band which is in use worldwide.

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Complainant Anuparp Thiralarp, former president of the Thailand Telecommunication Management Academy is using his former position to file the complaint.
Then in response to the NBTC's threat to sue opponents of the 3G auction, Mr Anuparp said the NBTC could do so if it considered it was a damaged party but that he was only exercising his rights as a citizen and wondered if it was suitable for NBTC members who were government officials to make such threats.
How many citizens cannot use 3G properly because of people like him continually opposing 3G progress and to what ends?
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Discussion 5 : 12 Oct 2012 at 08.205
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Dis#3 - The 3G currently available in Thailand is not the international standard. It is a second-rate and long outdated version. The auction is to use the international 2.1 standard. Meanwhile, as Thailand struggles endlessly to move beyond 2G many, many countries are already using or about to adopt 4G - including Thailand's close neighbours. Once Asean takes place Thailand will increasing become an irrelevant, unskilled-labour backwater.
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Discussion 4 : 12 Oct 2012 at 07.474
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Don't bother with 3G, just change to 4G.
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Discussion 3 : 12 Oct 2012 at 07.003
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Aren't these people aware that 3G is already being used? I know of many people that say they are already using it.
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Discussion 2 : 12 Oct 2012 at 06.052
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Arguing over 3G when the rest of the world is using 4G. Will Thailand ever learn?
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