TOT targets broadband for 4,000 villages by mid-2017
By USANEE MONGKOLPORN 
THE NATION

 

BANGKOK: -- STATE telecommunication enterprise TOT hopes to provide access to 4,000 villages by the middle of next year as part of the first phase of its nationwide broadband Internet network roll-out, Digital Economy and Society Minister Pichet Durongkaveroj said yesterday.

 

The government has assigned TOT to connect 24,700 villages countrywide by the end of next year at a cost of Bt9 billion. 

 

TOT president Montchai Noosong said procurement for the project would commence soon. 

 

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Good news....and the villages without proper power can plug their iPads into a coconut tree!

Sounds interesting. I lived in a small village in Phitsanulok and had TOT After the village headman and the police I wonder who can afford it. Another hollow blockbuster announcement 

Headline reads, "TOT targets broadband for 4,000 villages by mid-2017" !!!

 

But, further into the article it states that the "government" has assigned TOT to connect 24,700 villages countrywide by the end of next year.

 

So, 4,000 in the first six-months, then five times that number in the next six-months. Casting even further doubt on the probability of achieving the end-of-year goal, TOT president Montchai Noosong said procurement for the project would commence soon. 

 

Amazing Thailand !!!

What with this internet story and high speed trains and police giving bags of rice to good drivers and Thailand struggling to handle tourism boom etc. my BS meter has been working overtime today. Must near to needing new batteries.