Thailand's
net mess -
February 25, 2002
In case you had not heard, in-country connection
to the Internet is still at a crawl since an
undersea cable was severed on February 21. If
you want a net connection here you have to buy
it from an ISP that has to buy their connection
from a government monopoly (CAT)
that charges an outrageous markup. This monopoly
is housed in a massive complex outside of town
that can only be compared to Versailles. The
CAT decided that no backup was necessary for
Thailand's net access and now businesses that
depend on the net are
at a standstill. Best case scenarios point
to the end of the week before things get back
to normal.
Thailand’s net mess
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