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• Luke

  Discussion 4 : 19/02/2010 at 04:08 PM4

  Hi Don,
  
  Good article as usual, but I take issue with this..
  
  "VPN is often used by hackers to circumvent censorship"
  
  I assume you are referring to hackers as in unix hackers but I fear most readers will think otherwise. Also I would suggest that most common use of VPN is to get around the crappy Thai ISP bad performing "transparent" proxies.
  
  - Luke
  
  P.S ( the captcha on BP is broken, it always takes 2 attempts. )

• Jass

  Discussion 3 : 19/02/2010 at 03:23 PM3

  Why bother launching 3G, Cambodia to mention a country is light years ahead of Thailand. In the rest of the world, except for the USA 4G has arrived already. The bickering over the money and the fact that the elite did not wanted AIS to launch 3G 5 or 6 years ago has shown that Thailand is an immature country that is unable to keep up with modern society.

• Al

  Discussion 2 : 19/02/2010 at 02:56 PM2

  I am not too sure that the 'special needs' argument is robust enough to move the authorities any quicker. i would imagine that special needs people are in the low-income bracket and less likely to afford the handsets that could effectively handle video. but it's yet another tool in the arsenal.
  
  The stats on female data consumption are really interesting - but a price plan for the 'ladies' and one for the 'lads' sounds like sexual predjudice - not to mention very difficult to manage.
  
  If ToT hang around long enough(which it seems the intend to) they will be able to pick-up some great deals on second-hand 3G plant from Singapore, Hong Kong etc as they move on up the technology tree and leave Thailand holding the ladder.

• anwar

  Discussion 1 : 17/02/2010 at 10:13 PM1

  "M-Consult is taking customer service very seriously and offers a flat-fee of 1.50 baht to call its call centre" - Indeed so serious that they have to charge for it :-)
  
  
  Well one thing they cannot blame TOT is that everyone except maybe Loxinfo is offering the same price same service - We have twitter - we have facebook...but actually everyone has that just go to the mobile version of the sites even on your normal Nokia GSM..
  
  Even if they dont see a "social commitment" idea in launching some service for the handicapped in this country then think of it this way....6 million is more customers than you will ever get on the current setup!!!