CAT, TOT plan to merge core businesses into two
By Usanee Mongkolporn 
The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- CAT Telecom and TOT will jointly propose to the State Enterprise Policy Commission early next month their plans to merge their three core businesses into two companies, instead of three as earlier planned.

 

CAT has hired Deloitte as the consultant to study its plan to merge its Internet gateway and data centre businesses with the same two businesses of TOT. 

 

TOT, meanwhile, has hired PricewaterhouseCoopers Thailand as its consultant for the planned merger of its broadband Internet business with CAT’s.

 

According to the first phase of Deloitte’s study, CAT and TOT should consolidate their international Internet gateฌway and data centre businesses into a single company, instead of merging them and creating two separate companies as planned earlier, CAT president Colonel Sanpachai Huvanandana said.

 

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According to the first phase of Deloitte’s study, CAT and TOT should consolidate their international Internet gateway ...

 

Another step forward to a single gateway.   Following in China's footsteps of internet control.

boy, single gateway, basically defeats the purpose and underlying design of the packet based ethernet paradigm.  Everything going through one place.  Obviously this can be great for monitoring and control.  Kind of was inevitable though.  In the old days there were telegraph lines, then there were individual telephone networks and exchanges (any of you old timers remember or know what your exchange was in the usa?  Mine was geneva in Rhode Island), and along the way there were radio networks that were all individual, then the phone digital came along, then satellite hops by definition were gateways in the sense that land lines were.  Now it is possible to route an entire countries internet links or drops through one place.  Having said that, there are still ways to get internet drops without going through a local or national gateway using satellite drips.  But that assumes one can access the satellite

22 minutes ago, Pib said:

 

Another step forward to a single gateway.   Following in China's footsteps of internet control.

Do you understand that TOT and CAT are both 100% state owner companies.  What benefit could there possibility be in having two groups are state bureaucrats competing with each other

I sure do understand both are state owned...and of course consolidating like functions reduces diplication/costs....and it also takes you a step closer to a single gateway capability.

Once the govt has a big enough single gateway capability (big enough to handle all gateway traffic even those of commercial gateway provides such as True, AIS, 3BB and others the govt can further modify laws to possibly require them to get out of the international gateway business as the govt will handle the gateway function....and off course they'll say it's needed for national security and social harmony.

6 hours ago, Pib said:

Once the govt has a big enough single gateway capability (big enough to handle all gateway traffic even those of commercial gateway provides such as True, AIS, 3BB and others

 

True is a Cat reseller so does not matter. Do not n\know about the others as i do not use them.

I read this morning that by doing this the gov hopes to attract more international companies to trade with Thai companies. Yeah, yeah, yeah! Man, I think we've been through all this in previous 'single gateway' threads

19 minutes ago, GreasyFingers said:

 

True is a Cat reseller so does not matter. Do not n\know about the others as i do not use them.

10 companies operate international gateways in Thailand....CAT and TOT represent 2 of the 10.

 

Good to below weblink and look at the large international gateway overalls in the gateway map. 

http://internet.nectec.or.th/webstats/show_page.php?py0HA8wH8+a7AIaRsDo/prnHnBJzfoE5torm+SGClYjxZ0izLBDWgpNkDFV4FMjGFo/rJ/hX8Vj0Ha/RzKzs8z+tNlo2YQV55yOiL/YLpErxVAw+Yvas08+xXVWNJBs1

8 hours ago, jbaldwin said:

 

9 hours ago, Pib said:

 

Another step forward to a single gateway.   Following in China's footsteps of internet control.

Do you understand that TOT and CAT are both 100% state owner companies.  What benefit could there possibility be in having two groups are state bureaucrats competing with each other

 

Yes it must be much better with only 1 state owned company with no one to compete with.

That's what give good service and price 

9 minutes ago, Pib said:

10 companies operate international gateways in Thailand....CAT and TOT represent 2 of the 10.

 

Good to below weblink and look at the large international gateway overalls in the gateway map. 

http://internet.nectec.or.th/webstats/show_page.php?py0HA8wH8+a7AIaRsDo/prnHnBJzfoE5torm+SGClYjxZ0izLBDWgpNkDFV4FMjGFo/rJ/hX8Vj0Ha/RzKzs8z+tNlo2YQV55yOiL/YLpErxVAw+Yvas08+xXVWNJBs1

 

That is the most confusing "map" I have ever seen, but thanks for sharing.