3G i Thailand

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Ericsson finns med bland fyra offertgivare för expansionen av den thailändska statligt ägda teleoperatören TOT:s 3g-nät.

Expansionsordern värderas till 20 miljarder thailändska baht, eller omkring 667 miljoner dollar eller 4,6 miljarder kronor.

Det skriver den nätbaserade nyhetstjänsten Telegeography med hänvisning till uppgifter i The Bangkok Post

Övriga budgivare är SL-konsortiet där Huawei deltar, ZTE i samarbete med Forth Corporation och AU konsortiet.

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[Guest Plätt]

Skulle bli förvånad om inte Huawei tar hem ordern

Mvh.Plätt

[Juha]

Glöm Ericsson.

Det skulle bli för mycket skriverier i Aftonbladet om hur mycket mutor de fick betala.

[Tallviking]

Skulle bli förvånad om inte Huawei tar hem ordern

Mvh.Plätt

Huawei blev utkastade ur motsvarande upphandling i Indien därför att dom lämnade "små prylar" i sina bas-stationer kontrollerade av kinesiska staten !

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Huawei blev utkastade ur motsvarande upphandling i Indien därför att dom lämnade "små prylar" i sina bas-stationer kontrollerade av kinesiska staten !

Tänkte mera på Kinas inflytande, sen är det bara frågan om och hur det ska byggas ut,så landets befolkning får någon nytta av det!(jag med) för snabbare mobilt internet.

Mvh.Plätt

[Tallviking]

Tänkte mera på Kinas inflytande, sen är det bara frågan om och hur det ska byggas ut,så landets befolkning får någon nytta av det!(jag med) för snabbare mobilt internet.

Mvh.Plätt

Finns ju andra länder som har "inflytande" i Thailand som absolut inte vill se alltför avancerad kontroll från Kina i Thailand.

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Finns ju andra länder som har "inflytande" i Thailand som absolut inte vill se alltför avancerad kontroll från Kina i Thailand.

En sak är säkert det är att inget är självklart i Thailand, bara frågan hur det blir med licenserna till teleoperatörerna.

Mvh.Plätt

[Tallviking]

Thailändsk order till Ericsson

Ericsson har tecknat ett kontrakt med Thailands näst största mobiloperatör DTAC, som har 20 miljoner abonnenter. Den svenska telekomjätten ska modernisera DTAC:s rikstäckande 2 G-nät och förbereda det för mobila bredbandstjänster baserade på teknikerna WCDMA/HSPA och LTE/4 G.

Kontraktet är Ericssons första med DTAC, enligt ett pressmeddelande. Hur mycket pengar det är värt framgår inte.

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Thailändsk order till Ericsson

Ericsson har tecknat ett kontrakt med Thailands näst största mobiloperatör DTAC, som har 20 miljoner abonnenter. Den svenska telekomjätten ska modernisera DTAC:s rikstäckande 2 G-nät och förbereda det för mobila bredbandstjänster baserade på teknikerna WCDMA/HSPA och LTE/4 G.

Kontraktet är Ericssons första med DTAC, enligt ett pressmeddelande. Hur mycket pengar det är värt framgår inte.

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3G auction to go ahead despite possible lawsuits

By SIRIVISH TOOMGUM,

USANEE MONGKOLPORN

THE NATION

In photo: ZTE (Thailand) managing director Zhang Xioake at the press conference. While TOT plans to forge ahead with the e-auction for its Bt17.44-billion project to establish a nationwide third-generation telecom network on

Friday, it remains to be seen whether it can achieve this goal in the face of a possible lawsuit by the disqualified bidders.

A telecom industry source, while declining to elaborate, said 'an attempt' was also being made to delay the auction.

According to a primary qualification examination by TOT, the SL consortium of Loxley, Samart, Nokia Siemens Networks and Huawei Technologies and the AU consortium of Advanced Information Technology, Alcatel-Lucent (Thailand) and United Communication Industry are the two qualified bidders. The two disqualified bidders are the Ericsson-AS Associate Engineering (1964) and Forth Corp-ZTE consortia.

TOT informed Ericsson's consortium on January 14 and Forth-ZTE on January 19 about their preliminary disqualifications and gave them three days after the notifications to appeal against the ruling. If TOT did not consider their appeals, that would amount to final disqualification.

Both have petitioned the Prime Minister's Office and the Information and Communications Technology Ministry on the matter.

Another telecom industry source said the Ericsson consortium had considered bringing the case to the court.

Given that this is TOT's biggest project in many years, no potential bidder wants to miss the chance to take part. Samart Corp is eager to clinch the whole project, which would help boost its ICT business revenue by Bt6 billion this year.

ZTE (Thailand) managing director Zhang Xioake said yesterday that ZTE would bring the case to the court once it was officially informed by TOT that it is disqualified. But he declined to provide details as it is consulting a lawyer on the case.

According to ZTE, it was disqualified because of its proposal for core capacity of the network higher than required by the bid's Terms of Reference (TOR). Last Friday, the company submitted an appeal to TOT to confirm its full compliance with the TOR.

"It's not a mistake to provide more than the TOR," Zhang said.

Also last Friday, ZTE petitioned the PM's Office, the ICT Ministry and the TOT board that the result was unfair to ZTE and the qualifications of some bidders were doubtful, which should not be ignored by TOT. It added that more consortia competing in the bid would benefit TOT.

Earlier, there was a rumour that Samart's qualifications contradicted the TOR, which bans companies doing business in competition with TOT from joining the bid. Samart president Watchai Vilailuck argued that the company had never competed with TOT.

China's ZTE has set a revenue target for its Thai subsidiary of US$160 million (Bt4.95 billion) this year, compared with ZTE Thailand's revenue of $55 million last year.

When asked if it could meet the revenue target if it fails to take part in the TOT 3G project, Zhang said the company would try its best to meet the goal. He added that there was huge business opportunity in the mobile and broadband network markets here.

The TOT panel disqualified the Ericsson-led consortium for the absence of catalogues for antenna-related products in its proposal.

Ericsson Thailand sent three letters last week to TOT to clarify the case, one of which asked why that apparent oversight had not been raised during a meeting with TOT representatives on January 14 to discuss the Ericsson proposal. The consortium should have been notified of this matter during the meeting so that it could rectify the situation, it argued.

-- The Nation 2011-01-26

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Samart wins 3G auction

Published: 28/01/2011 at 03:51 PM

Online news: Economics

Samart Corporation won today's TOT Plc auction for a 20-billion-baht 3G (third generation) wireless broadband network expansion.

The e-auction was held on Friday morning after the Administrative Court last night rejected Ericsson's petition to halt the bidding.

The reserve bid price was set at 17.440 billion baht. There were 17 bids.

The SL consortium of Samart, Loxley, Nokia Siemens Networks and Huawei Technologies won the auction with a minimum bid of 16.29 billion baht, which was 6.59 per cent less than the reserve price. The contract is scheduled to be signed next month.

The AU consortium of Advanced Information Technology and United Communications submitted a bid of 16.77 billion baht.

True Move, the country's third-largest mobile phone operator, and state-owned CAT Telecom yesterday signed a deal to develop a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) network into a High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) network.

Both firms wanted to provide 3G mobile services quickly by turning 3,000 CDMA base stations nationwide to HSPA base stations by the end of this year.

Meanwhile, a meeting of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission selection committee today chsose Jaturong Panyadilok, permanent secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office, as the committee’s chairman.

Reports said the meeting also made Okas Teparakul, chairman of the National Economic and Social Development Advisory Council, the deputy chairman.

Assoc Prof Yubol Benjarongkij, chair of the Association of Academics in the Field of Journalism and Mass Communications of Thailand, was appointed secretary-general.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/economics/218722/samart-wins-3g-auction