Triple T Broadband

[Maejo Man]

Thailand operator TT&T is jumping onto the red-hot 'triple-play' online bandwagon with commercial operations scheduled to start early next year.

Triple-play is an Internet protocol service that combines Internet, TV and phone applications.

Introducing triple-play to the Thai market is part of the group's six-billion-baht investment scheme this year under subsidiary Triple T Broadband -- the first private operator to obtain a Type 3 license for fixed-line telephone and data communication services, including multimedia teleconferencing.

The 20-year license, granted by the National Telecommunications Commission in February, enables Triple T to provide services nationwide, including Bangkok. Currently, parent company TT&T provides these services but only in the provinces, where it has a concession from TOT.

Prasitchai Kritsanayunyong, senior vice-president for corporate finance with TT&T and a director of Triple T Broadband, said talks were taking place with a few content providers, including CNN and some local publishing firms regarding triple-play programs.

telecomasia.net

[Mapguy]

Interesting but unrealistic, as I understand it, unless this company and others make a MUCH bigger investment in cable infrastructure, not an easy challenge. On a simpler note, how anyone can make any sense out of the spaghetti of wires overhead on the streets is totally beyond me.

[monty]

Interesting but unrealistic, as I understand it, unless this company and others make a MUCH bigger investment in cable infrastructure, not an easy challenge. On a simpler note, how anyone can make any sense out of the spaghetti of wires overhead on the streets is totally beyond me.

Actually TripleT has been very active in laying out their own cable infrastructure.

In Pattaya alone they installed several hundreds Micro dslam's, all interconnected by TT&T's own fiber cabling. You can recognize them from the big 3BB stickers on them.

In Pretty much any area you will not be further away then 2 km from one of there Dslam's, and as they use ADSL 2+ and a new cable to your house, the ADSL part can easily carry 12 Mbps that distance, and then hop on their fiber...

Pretty much all users report domestic bandwidth as advertised, so no problems there to carry IPTV services. With the current efficient compression technologies, bandwidth requirements for standard television resolution is very low...Even high quality 720p streams compressed using the h264 codec come in at less then 1 mbps!

[Trickcyclist]

bring it on!!