Wire-burying project faces delay due to dispute over line-rental fees

PATTAYA:--Business owners are balking at proposed fees to move telephone, cable-television and internet wires underground in Pattaya, threatening on-time completion of the North Road project.

 

City Councilman Adm. Srivisut Rodarun chaired an Oct. 18 meeting of the Public Works and Utilities Committee attended by representatives of the Provincial Electricity Authority, CAT Telecom and the Telecommunications Association of Thailand.

 

CAT was assigned by the PEA to handle the relocation of communication cables underground nationwide as well as setting rental rates for the water-protected pipes in which they go.

 

The utility set a charge of 120 baht a month for homes connected to underground wires and 6,000 baht a month for businesses, which has businesses up in arms.

 

Business owners – particularly cable-TV operators – called the fees excessive and added that they’d prefer not to put wires underground, as they are more difficult and costly to repair or replace.

 

The dispute is threatening a delay in completing the PEA’s North Road project, which was supposed to conclude by year-end.

 

Read more: http://www.pattayamail.com/news/wire-burying-project-faces-delay-due-dispute-line-rental-fees-227952

 

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Perhaps the line rental issue should have been resolved before work started. T21's opening makes for a massive challenge for any future works on Pattaya Nua. Good luck to all concerned; they will surely need it.

3 hours ago, Rimmer said:

 

Business owners – particularly cable-TV operators – called the fees excessive and added that they’d prefer not to put wires underground, as they are more difficult and costly to repair or replace.

 

If they used a reasonable quality cable to start with this would  be less of an issue. It might require trained and competent staff, that could be a bigger issue.

6000 a month for a business?,,,,,,That is very very expensive for a small business,,, 

After being marooned for two hours on Pattaya Nua when T21 opened, I'll not be going down there any time soon.

I was of the opinion that the allocated money for this project was to cover all these costs. But then I'm getting on in years. Me thinks somebodies pocket just got a bit fatter

As with any project here the allocated money appears to have been gobbled up and now the scramble begins in earnest to find the remainder of cash to finish any work... same story different day...
Surely the rents for the pipe work had to of been discussed initially?....

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On 10/26/2018 at 6:38 AM, champers said:

Perhaps the line rental issue should have been resolved before work started. T21's opening makes for a massive challenge for any future works on Pattaya Nua. Good luck to all concerned; they will surely need it.

should have been resolved before work started

should be applied to all issues

On 10/27/2018 at 10:07 AM, Anythingleft? said:

As with any project here the allocated money appears to have been gobbled up and now the scramble begins in earnest to find the remainder of cash to finish any work... same story different day...
Surely the rents for the pipe work had to of been discussed initially?....

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where ARE YOU??.....You are in Thailand !!!

where ARE YOU??.....You are in Thailand !!!

Perfectly aware of where I am, however you cannot ask people for rent on a service that you have not yet started to provide. If the wording is correct they want the rents paying upfront so that they can start the work.
A bit like saying yeah you can have your new motor in a couple of months but we will start taking the payments now..... what extra cost can be placed on a rent of the cable fee anyway, what maintenance services will they provide for this extra cost? They want everyone to pay for installation pure and simple.....dont blame the shop owners one bit for pushing back to the companies on this....

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Leave them wires alone!

Burying the world-famous overhead spaghetti wire superhighway of Pattaya will be the destruction of the last standing 8 wonders of the world in existence after,

the Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt.

the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Greece.

the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus.

the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.

the Colossus of Rhodes.

the Lighthouse of Alexandria