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MESSAGE FROM

THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

OF DIRECTORS

Dear Shareholders,

In 2022, COVID-19 became less of a disruption in our lives; businesses were taking their journey to recovery
and returning to normality. Thailand's space industry is no exception and is heading its way toward rapid
growth because of the emerging new space economy. The government has put the focus on this
fast-growing market, as it will draw huge investments and provide new development opportunities for the
space sector as well as for related businesses.

In supporting Thailand’s space industry, the Therefore, this is a decent moment for Thaicom to
government has identified space development as reposition itself as a regional space tech company
one of the key strategies under the National Space rather than only a satellite operator. We intend to
Master Plan 2023-2037. The plan will lead the grow our core satellite business while also focusing
development of a space economy for national on new space-related business. Thaicom will
security, prosperity, and sustainability in order to leverage its space technology expertise, as well as
drive the space industry towards new space opportunities from the emerging new space
economy and create the utmost benefits for the economy and the National Space Master Plan and
country. Policy, to create innovative solutions and services
that meet the needs of customers in a variety of
In addition, significant development has been industries, including agriculture, tourism, the
made in our country's satellite industry. The environment, and natural resources.
National Broadcasting and Telecommunications
Commission (NBTC) successfully held Thailand's Concurrently, Thaicom remains committed to
first auction for satellite orbital slot packages. conducting its business under the concepts of
Thaicom is pleased to announce that Space Tech "Company for Today" and "Company for
Innovation Ltd. (STI), our wholly-owned subsidiary, Tomorrow." We follow the guideline "Company for
has won two packages in the NBTC orbital slot Today" in order to achieve positive and profitable
auction. This acquisition will ignite our upcoming results every quarter while ensuring a steady cash
Dear Shareholders, flow. Furthermore, we continue to invest in
satellite project. The new satellite will serve as an
important infrastructure for the growth of our research and development (R&D) to drive
business, as well as support our commitment to long-term and sustainable growth for "Company
providing end-to-end satellite solutions that deliver for Tomorrow." The concept is also applied to our
broadband and broadcast services to meet the human resource development as an "Ambidextrous
needs of our customers in Thailand and the Organization," which encourages employees to
Asia-Pacific region. have multidimensional knowledge in order to drive

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