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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2685)1/30/1999 1:42:00 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 5390
 
PROBLEMS FOR THAI CORDLESS OPERATOR

Editor: IAN CHANNING
Issue Date: 13 January 1999

Thailand's Personal Cordless Telephone
(PCT) network is struggling to survive
and looks likely to cease operating in
the near future. Despite having around
110,000 customers the network, which uses
a modified version of Japan's PHS
(Personal Handyphone System) technology,
is running ever deeper into debt.
Network operator Telecomasia Corp (TA) is
unable to charge its customers
because once it begins issuing bills it
is supposed to start paying back its
infrastructure supplier NEC. In an effort
to resolve the situation, TA tried to close
down the PCT network, claiming the
technology was 'inappropriate' for Thailand
but this move was rejected by national
regulator Telephone Organisation of
Thailand (TOT). To date, TA has invested
between USD400 and USD600
million in the PCT network but has not
achieved the level of coverage necessary
to ensure a good quality of service.
Under the agreement with NEC more than
50,000 PCT base stations were to be
installed to provide total coverage of
metropolitan Bangkok. Thus far NEC has
installed 31,000 outdoor sites and over
12,000 in-building sites, insufficient
say customers to provide the necessary
coverage. TA also operates a fixed line
network which is losing revenue because
its customers are using their (free) PCT
phones to make calls. TA is negotiating
with its creditors to extend the rollover
of its loan payments and recently
announced that had reached agreement in
these negotiations.
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