It is 3pm and a group of schoolboys dressed in white T-shirts and blue shorts gathers to board buses bound for home. It’s business as usual with the difference being that the buses can be tracked using a GPS (global positioning system), but instead of using the usual costly GPS black box, Assumption College in Bangkok has attached a mobile phone provided by Hutchison CAT Wireless Multimedia to each of its school vans.

Software tells just how noisy it really is

There’s yapping dogs and howling cats and screaming children and blaring speaker trucks and neighbours’ stereos and roaring motorbikes and construction sites at all hours of the day and night.

Nectec and NTC guidelines to ensure equal access

The National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec) with assistance from the National Telecommunications Commission has drafted telecommunications services guidelines for people with disabilities and elderly people to ensure access to universal services.

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