elef Posted June 10, 2008 Report Share Posted June 10, 2008 The Nation Today Link An Internet price war? By Sirivish Toomgum The Nation Published on June 10, 2008 TT&T Subscriber Services has launched a new broadband-Internet package, offering a minimum speed of 2 megabits per second for Bt590 a month. The company also plans to double its subscriber numbers to more than 600,000 this year. President Prachuab Tantinon yesterday said the package was expected to help boost company revenue from Bt2 billion last year to Bt3 billion this year. Earlier, its customers paid the same monthly fee of Bt590 but received a speed of only 1mps. The new package covers all provinces and some areas of Bangkok. TT&T Subscriber is a subsidiary of TT&T, which operates fixed-line telephone services upcountry but not in Bangkok. True is the country's largest broadband-Internet provider, with more than 600,000 subscribers. Last month, it launched a new broadband-Internet package, featuring a speed of 2mps for Bt890 a month. Subscribers to the package are also entitled to connect to the Internet wirelessly free of charge in areas covered by True's wireless-Internet network. TT&T Subscriber will spend Bt50 million to market its new package. Separately, Prachuab said he hoped the National Telecom-munications Commission (NTC) would soon grant licences to operate WiMax technology for offering wireless broadband-Internet connection services. The NTC is expected to grant the licences this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Posted June 10, 2008 Report Share Posted June 10, 2008 Earlier, its customers paid the same monthly fee of Bt590 but received a speed of only 1mps. Subscribers know the real speed they get is not 1mbps, it is diddly squat a lot of the time. There is no truth in advertising of the speeds ISPs like to fling about and they don't guarantee them at all. May as well tell everyone they are getting a 1 gigabit speed increase for free. he hoped the National Telecom-munications Commission (NTC) would soon grant licences to operate WiMax Why waste time and 50m baht marketing the vaporware 2mbps package when something this important goes begging? Since WiMax has been dead in the water for years, it could use a little more than "hope" at this stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted June 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2008 Myabe it's really 2 Mbit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustian Posted June 10, 2008 Report Share Posted June 10, 2008 Yeah, right...2mb in my dreams... This makes cslox info look even crappier...1,600 baht for a non-2meg service...per month...time to change. Are True still blocking ports? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted June 11, 2008 Report Share Posted June 11, 2008 Hi, True has been really crap lately. Very slow. (Having said that, I am downloading torrents at 100Kb/s at the moment on a 1Mbit line) Those speeds advertised are all 'guaranteed' for LocalNet (i.e. Internet within Thailand itself) and therefore useless to pretty much all of us. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted June 11, 2008 Report Share Posted June 11, 2008 ...and if the Thai intranet is moving slow, what of the guarantee? Money back? free massage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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