Domestic website use up for information, news, and entertainment

BANGKOK: -- Internet users in Thailand are changing their behaviour to use more domestic websites for searching information while formerly they preferred to surf foreign websites, according to a leading Thai Internet provider.

True Internet Co., Ltd general manager Natthawut Amornwiwat said there are seven million Internet users in Thailand, more and more "Thai netizens" are turning to the use of domestic websites to search for information.

"Watching television via Internet as well as multimedia information gathering is increasingly popular," he said, adding that news and current affairs websites are among the favourites.

Now, there are more domestic websites on news and current affairs created in response to the higher demand of the users, he added.

Mr. Natthawut said that True plans to expand the its Internet network to the provinces to serve more clients and to prepare itself for increasingly fierce competition in the internet provider market of the future.

--TNA 2006-03-15

Domestic website use up for information, news, and entertainment

BANGKOK: -- Internet users in Thailand are changing their behaviour to use more domestic websites for searching information while formerly they preferred to surf foreign websites, according to a leading Thai Internet provider.

True Internet Co., Ltd general manager Natthawut Amornwiwat said there are seven million Internet users in Thailand, more and more "Thai netizens" are turning to the use of domestic websites to search for information.

"Watching television via Internet as well as multimedia information gathering is increasingly popular," he said, adding that news and current affairs websites are among the favourites.

Now, there are more domestic websites on news and current affairs created in response to the higher demand of the users, he added.

Mr. Natthawut said that True plans to expand the its Internet network to the provinces to serve more clients and to prepare itself for increasingly fierce competition in the internet provider market of the future.

--TNA 2006-03-15

I suspect that this is a misleading report based on the fact that most gateways out of Thailand have had a lot of problem within the last year, leaving the Thai users little choice than to surf domestically, add this to the lack of language skills and ......... Check out http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm

Not sure that Thai's use the internet as an 'information tool'. If you look around internet cafes you see lots of young schoolboys playing online "Ragnorrok" or similar, lots of young schoolgirls enjoying chat rooms whilst the older girls are sending emails to farrangs asking for money because "the buffalo is sick".