Countries can no longer afford to have sections of their population cut off from communications with the outside world, but all too often they cannot keep pace with demand. The lack of basic communications in rural areas seriously detracts from the quality of life of the populations. It is telecommunications that becomes the critical catalyst for encouraging the growth of local extractive, agricultural and manufacturing industries, as well as rural business and tourism. However, the distance from centers of population has been a prime factor impeding the progress of bringing telecommunications to these areas. In these remote regions, rural telephony can be the ideal solution for providing a communications infrastructure that can be the backbone for economic development. In addition, rural telephony represents significant business opportunities for telephone service operators.

A satellite is a cost-effective platform to support a rural telephony service since its cost is insensitive to distance. To further advocate rural telephony, Thaicom can provide a technologically advanced, rural telephony network on a turnkey basis. That is, the Company can take care of every aspect of network installation to ensure the customers are satisfied with the network, reducing costs and providing more telephone connections to people in rural and remote areas.

• The service can be provided anywhere under Thaicom Satellites’ service areas
• Cost-effective solution because the equipment is designed particularly for voice traffic in rural area
• Installation cost is low as no need to lay transmission lines
• System expansion to other locations is simple and fast since the terminal can be put virtually anywhere
• Center controlling and monitoring; end-to-end service which reduce operation and maintenance cost