One month ago, the board of directors of Thailand’s state-owned telco TOT Corporation sacked its CEO, citing lack of performance, despite the CEO not even getting to the first evaluation round. What does it mean, and what are the consequences for the potential foreign partners TOT is now wooing for its 3G network?

One wonders why most Thai state owned enterprises always seem to have acting CEOs half the time. The answer is that it is a matter of bypassing good governance.

One of the tenets of good governance is the need for a non-executive policy board. Board members whose duty is ...    

Only a few years ago it was predicted that the multiple standards in the analogue days that gave way to two main camps in digital would soon become one big happy family once LTE takes hold and Wimax is quietly buried and forgotten.

However, the rush to forth generation networks and the need to provide wireless broadband access has created a maze of frequencies that have shattered the idea of homogeneity.

The other day I was sitting down reminiscing with John Stefanac, head honcho at Qualcomm for Asia-Pacific. He asked me to guess how many active LTE profiles there were out there.

Qualcomm ...    

Corrupt and politicized regulation is rearing its ugly head spooking telco investment across Asia.

Fear, uncertainty and doubt must now be keeping many telco bosses and their investors up late at night in the wake of the Indian supreme court ruling that saw 122 2G licences revoked.

Essentially what has happened is that the courts have said that looking back at 2007, in hindsight, India could have got more for the licences by auctioning them out and that they do not believe arguments put forward by TRAI, the telecoms regulator or the commissioner.

The state had lost out and so all that ...    

Who is responsible for the actions of a self-learning AI? SimSimi’s de-facto execution by Thai authorities leaves questions unanswered.

The AI chat robot SimSimi has been making waves in Thailand over the past few weeks, being the latest craze for the smartphone savvy crowd.

But it stoked controversy and even protests, and has now been effectively banned from Thailand for showing the political leaders a reflection of something they do not wish to see.

SimSimi is an artificial intelligence chatbot. It uses fuzzy logic algorithms to learn and respond to sentences that it knows and asks you to teach it sentences that it ...    

One of the promises of cloud computing is that anyone with a laptop, an internet connection and an idea can have access to the best infrastructure out there and turn their ideas into reality.

Well, that may be the case in the west but in more developing countries, lack of net neutrality or even debate about it means that the gatekeeper, the ISP, still has a major say in what goes through their network and what does not.

The implications for over the top providers are obvious and ominous.

In Thailand, the largest fixed line ISP by some margin is TrueOnline, at 40% ...