Bangkok Post (5 December 2007)
TOT board directors today will begin a week-long trip to Europe to study the operations of British Telecom, France Telecom and Telecom Italia. Gen Saprang Kalayanamitr, the board chairman, is not on the trip. Deputy president Kittipong Taemeyapradit said the team would focus mainly on British Telecom because it has a similar organisational structure to TOT.British Telecom operates a fixed-line business but is very successful, in particular with its next generation network (NGN), he said. TOT wants to invest in a complete NGN although to date it has committed less than 10% of the amount that would be required.
Col Natee Sukolrat, the board spokesman, said that at France Telecom, the team wanted to see how application services were provided.
TOT held talks on several occasions with British Telecom during the Thaksin government on an NGN network, for which the state telecom enterprise wanted to have BT as an adviser.
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