lots of love in the Thai establishment as regulating is a very sexy business...lol
- By Pooky, Thai Intel’s economics journalist
Today, Thailand‘s telecom regulator visited the ultra-nationalist and ultra-royalist, media firm True Corporation.
Local press reports that True senior executive told the regulator to help crackdown on 1,000s of community media-such as local cable TV.
True Corporation, is pushing its internet cable offerings aggressively and also have a satellite cable TV business. Both of these businesses, have run into strong competition from local operators-who often operates in the gray area of the law.
“A technical department at the regulator is needed to follow every local community media to see if they break the law of not,” True executives told the regulator.
The regulator, earlier, lifted a long-standing ban against True cable TV accepting commercials.
Before the lifting of the ban, True cable TV, under pressure from foreign content providers, who runs their programing with commercials, often run those commercials with the content even with the ban.
The regulators said very little, and eventually, against other Thai media objection, who saw commercials on True as competition, was allowed to run commercials.
True, under the CP conglomerate, traditionally supports every Thai political party with campaign donations, as a way to shield the company from political risk and in position to benefit, have changed that exposure and became a strong supporter of the Democrat Party.
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