CAT wary of competition
CAT Telecom will deploy a competitive price strategy and increase the quality of its international Internet gateway (IIG) service to maintain customers amid the upcoming competition from new service providers under the national telecom regulator's licences.
CAT's chief marketing officer Marut Buranasethkul said yesterday that CAT had to adjust its strategy to cope with the fiercer competition. CAT plans to boost the bandwidth capacity of its IIG to 14 gigabits per second (Gbps) from the current eight to serve a rising bandwidth demand from internet service providers (ISPs), he added. The state agency had provided the IIG service exclusively as a channel for local ISPs to connect or exchange traffic with global Internet networks. The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has already opened up the IIG market by granting IIG licences to several applicants, including Advanced Datanetwork Communications and True Internet Gateway (TIG). Recently TIG accused CAT of refusing to permit TIG to connect to CAT's IIG in the Satun-Songkhla area as part of TIG's plan to connect with overseas telecom carriers. Marut denied the charge, citing the limitation of the connection points, and said that CAT had already advised TIG to connect with its IIG at Bangrak. TIG did not inform CAT if it wanted to connect with CAT's gateway at Bangrak, but did inform the NTC that CAT had denied its request to connect at the Satun-Songkhla point.
Usanee Mongkolporn The Nation
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