Thailand To Get Two New International Cables

[lomatopo]

http://www.telecomasia.net/content/thailand-get-two-new-international-cables

Thailand to get two new international cables

Dylan Bushell-Embling | June 18, 2012

telecomasia.net

China Telecom and Thai state-owned operator TOT will join forces to build two new international telecom cables running into Thailand.

The companies will deploy landline cables - one linking Thailand with Laos, China and Russia, and the other running from Thailand to Cambodia and Vietnam - Bangkok Post reported.

The new cables are designed to ease the strain of the subsea cable operated by fellow state-owned telco CAT, currently Thailand's main international link.

[astral]

Good news I guess, but surely co-operation between CAT and TOT would be better?

[beano2274]

Good news but the maintenance of the equipment is important, and what equipment will they put on the head-ends? WDM or DXC? Probably Huawei equipment as it is with the Chinese.

Edited June 21, 2012 by beano2274

[beano2274]

If they are running land cables which will be fibre, then they are gonna require sites every some many kilometres to carry the signals further (ILA) and also to check the quality of the signal (3R site), these sites will be in the middle of nowhere and knowing Thais will probably be suspect to being used for other things as well.

[Darrel]

Extra bandwidth to/from Europe is what's needed. That's where all the bottle-necks are.

[jimmybkk]

I wonder if they will sell most of this bandwidth like they did in 2006...

[thunder30101]

Yeah buddy !!! the chinese connection will be awesome with the great firewall of china to censor anything I really want to read. Vietnam is probably not far behind in censoring their internet, what a waste of cable and money.

[boggle]

3R, Dont think so. optical amp with error correction. The main problem they will have is the theft and damage of/to the cable if it is run above ground. when we installed the Thai network back in the mid 2000s we were getting 8 breaks per day. A lot of this is because the locals were pinching the cable thinking it was copper. To bury this cable will be very expensive. All the buildings the equipment were installed in were existing TOT/CAT sites. No probs with the buildings being used for anything else. Quite secure.

[Notstupid30]

I'm seeing a lot of improvements with 3BB Premier line i've been given the 8285 / 1024 that's what been shown via D-link as we speak and i'm only paying 2500bht a month ..

Torrent speed has been going throw the roof also 8000 kB's down to about 600 kB's happy day this for me ...

Edited June 21, 2012 by Notstupid30

[boggle]

I'm seeing a lot of improvements with 3BB Premier line i've been given the 8285 / 1024 that's what been shown via D-link as we speak and i'm only paying 2500bht a month ..

Torrent speed has been going throw the roof also 8000 kB's down to about 600 kB's happy day this for me ...

ONLY 2500 per month?

[Notstupid30]

That's right also don't mind paying that as it saves me loads on movies and tv shows and what not .. Plus also why i'm getting this sort of speed is because being with them for 5 years now even throw that time not really had any problems with them ..

[pipo1000]

That's right also don't mind paying that as it saves me loads on movies and tv shows and what not .. Plus also why i'm getting this sort of speed is because being with them for 5 years now even throw that time not really had any problems with them ..

I think you choose the wrong username, because with True online you will get a steady 8 Mb down for about a quarter of that price.

[Notstupid30]

in my neck of the woods you can't get true sorry to say ..

[klikster]

I got the 3BB #2, 9/1, and all tests to US and Europe run about 10/1-1.5

I downloaded Safari browser a few days ago and was seeing 900mb and 1000mb speeds.

[NHJ]

I'm seeing a lot of improvements with 3BB Premier line i've been given the 8285 / 1024 that's what been shown via D-link as we speak and i'm only paying 2500bht a month ..

Torrent speed has been going throw the roof also 8000 kB's down to about 600 kB's happy day this for me ...

i got the same and paying only 632 baht per month ;-) 3bb indy

[NHJ]

I got the 3BB #2, 9/1, and all tests to US and Europe run about 10/1-1.5

I downloaded Safari browser a few days ago and was seeing 900mb and 1000mb speeds.

biased tests by a cache server in thailand, use dslreport to know your true US speed.

[klikster]

I downloaded Safari browser a few days ago and was seeing 900mb and 1000mb speeds.

biased tests by a cache server in thailand, use dslreport to know your true US speed.

How did they 'cache' this?

[klikster]

'nuff said?

[Crushdepth]

Cool, now we can share all our data with the commies as well as the Americans.

[astral]

780kB/s (kiloBytes per second) is approximately equal to 8Mb/s (megabits per second)

I seriously doubt that any ISP in Thailand is offering 8MB/sec (MegaBytes/second)

A small or large B makes a world of difference

8 bits in 1 Byte

[lomatopo]

I seriously doubt that any ISP in Thailand is offering 8MB/sec (MegaBytes/second)

True Online offer 50, 100 and 200 Mbps lines, hence your doubt, serious or otherwise seems misplaced?

http://www3.truecorp.co.th/trueonline/packagedetail/6

Obviously many businesses have high speed lines from ISPs as well.

[NHJ]

I seriously doubt that any ISP in Thailand is offering 8MB/sec (MegaBytes/second)

True Online offer 50, 100 and 200 Mbps lines, hence your doubt, serious or otherwise seems misplaced?

http://www3.truecorp...packagedetail/6

Obviously many businesses have high speed lines from ISPs as well.

80 megabits or higher could theoricaly achieve 8mB/sec.

[astral]

I stand corrected.

Thanks for that link.

I am surprised at the relatively low level of the prices for such high speeds

[Darrel]

Speedtests are pretty pointless. What matters is maintaining bandwidth over time and this is what is affected by traffic-shaping, and poor connectivity outside of Thailand. These are the two areas where Thai ISPs fall over.

[NanLaew]

So now TOT can stick two fingers up at CAT when it comes to renting bandwidth or hardware and in the ensuing pseudo-political pissing contest between the state-owned entities, the subscriber will see bugger all change apart from higher prices.

[HardenedSoul]

780kB/s (kiloBytes per second) is approximately equal to 8Mb/s (megabits per second)

I seriously doubt that any ISP in Thailand is offering 8MB/sec (MegaBytes/second)

A small or large B makes a world of difference

8 bits in 1 Byte

I get 5MB/sec downloading torrents with True's 50Mb cable service so it could be possible with their 100Mb offering.