TOT will "definitely" launch a fibre-to-the-x (FTTx) broadband-Internet service in Bangkok, Phuket and Hua Hin this year, a senior executive said yesterday.
Senior executive vice president Sujin Kodsup said TOT was also developing multimedia content for FTTx customers in addition to the broadband connection via direct fibre-optic link.
FTTx - x can represent home, building or premises - involves connecting a customer with a direct fibre-optic link via a service provider, in order to receive voice and data services.
Sujin said the FTTx service would be useless without multimedia content for the customers.
Many content-makers have approached TOT about being a partner in the project, but the company has yet to conclude any deals.
He declined to specify the cost of the project's development.
CAT Telecom is another state agency planning to launch an FTTx service in Bangkok, at a cost of Bt6 billion. The project is expected to yield an investment return rate of 15 per cent and break even in five years and one month.
Meanwhile, TOT yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with property and construction firm Supalai to provide Wi-Fi connections to e-conferencing systems and FTTx services to all of Supalai's projects.
Supalai deputy managing director Atip Bijanonda said such information- and communications-technology (ICT) services would add value to the company's property projects and distinguish them from those of its competitors.
Sujin said the MoU allowed TOT to provide ICT services to all of Supalai's 30 existing house and condominium projects, as well as future ones.
However, it is not an exclusive deal.
TOT has already started providing some ICT services to Supalai at a cost of Bt2 million to Bt3 million per project.
The exact cost per project will depend on the types of services needed.
Sujin said TOT had also approached another major property firm, Land & Houses, about a similar FTTx deal.
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