ONI Country Profi le
381
Research Network Technology Lab, http://internet.nectec.or.th/document/pdf/20070824
_Important_Intenet_Statistics_of_Thailand.pdf.
14. National Telecommunication Commission of Thailand, Telecommunication Market Report
2010, Bangkok: NTC, 2010.
15. Pirongrong Ramasoota, “ Internet and Democracy in Thailand, ” in Rhetoric and Reality: The
Internet Challenge for Democracy in Asia , ed. Indrajit Banerjee (Singapore: Eastern Universities Press:
2003), 297.
16. Although CAT Telecom ’ s shares are controlled by the Ministry of Finance, the entity is
under the bureaucratic structure of the Ministry of Information and Communication
Technology.
17. National Telecommunications Commission, Unpublished Data Submitted to the Commission in the reading of the Frequency Allocation Organization and Regulation of Broadcasting
and Telecommunications draft law, 2010.
18. Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology, “ Government Information Network: GIN, ” http://203.113.25.35/gin/rationale.htm .
19. Internet Innovation Research Center, “ Web Rank by Country: Thailand, ” http://truehits.net/
index_ranking.php .
20. National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Internet Users Profi le of Thailand 2552
(2009).
21. Jon Russell, “ Analysis: Thailand Passes Five Million Facebook Users, ” Asian Correspondent, September 7, 2010, http://www.asiancorrespondent.com/39989/analysis-thailand-passes-5-million
-facebook-users .
22. Figures obtained from Facebook press release available at http://www.facebook.com/press/
info.php?statistics , accessed February 7, 2011.
23. Ministry of Information, Communication, and Technology, “ Broadband Policy , ” November
18, 2010, http://www.mict.go.th/article_attach/policy_Broadband.pdf .
24. Ibid.
25. See Pirongrong Ramasoota and Nithima Kananithinan, Internet Content Regulation in Thailand ,
2003 Research report under the Media Reform Research Project. Supported by the Thailand
Research Fund (TRF), http://www.tdri.or.th/reports/unpublished/media/number10.pdf .
26. Section 18, Thailand Computer-Related Offenses Act B.E. 2550, http://www.lib.su.ac.th/
ComputerLaw50.pdf.
27. The existence of this automatic URL fi ltering system is not common public knowledge. Its
existence was discovered by OpenNet Asia research, which revealed that a group of computer
science researchers from Kasetsart University in Bangkok were commissioned by CAT Telecom,
a state enterprise that runs major IIGs, to design the fi ltering system. For further details see
381
Research Network Technology Lab, http://internet.nectec.or.th/document/pdf/20070824
_Important_Intenet_Statistics_of_Thailand.pdf.
14. National Telecommunication Commission of Thailand, Telecommunication Market Report
2010, Bangkok: NTC, 2010.
15. Pirongrong Ramasoota, “ Internet and Democracy in Thailand, ” in Rhetoric and Reality: The
Internet Challenge for Democracy in Asia , ed. Indrajit Banerjee (Singapore: Eastern Universities Press:
2003), 297.
16. Although CAT Telecom ’ s shares are controlled by the Ministry of Finance, the entity is
under the bureaucratic structure of the Ministry of Information and Communication
Technology.
17. National Telecommunications Commission, Unpublished Data Submitted to the Commission in the reading of the Frequency Allocation Organization and Regulation of Broadcasting
and Telecommunications draft law, 2010.
18. Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology, “ Government Information Network: GIN, ” http://203.113.25.35/gin/rationale.htm .
19. Internet Innovation Research Center, “ Web Rank by Country: Thailand, ” http://truehits.net/
index_ranking.php .
20. National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Internet Users Profi le of Thailand 2552
(2009).
21. Jon Russell, “ Analysis: Thailand Passes Five Million Facebook Users, ” Asian Correspondent, September 7, 2010, http://www.asiancorrespondent.com/39989/analysis-thailand-passes-5-million
-facebook-users .
22. Figures obtained from Facebook press release available at http://www.facebook.com/press/
info.php?statistics , accessed February 7, 2011.
23. Ministry of Information, Communication, and Technology, “ Broadband Policy , ” November
18, 2010, http://www.mict.go.th/article_attach/policy_Broadband.pdf .
24. Ibid.
25. See Pirongrong Ramasoota and Nithima Kananithinan, Internet Content Regulation in Thailand ,
2003 Research report under the Media Reform Research Project. Supported by the Thailand
Research Fund (TRF), http://www.tdri.or.th/reports/unpublished/media/number10.pdf .
26. Section 18, Thailand Computer-Related Offenses Act B.E. 2550, http://www.lib.su.ac.th/
ComputerLaw50.pdf.
27. The existence of this automatic URL fi ltering system is not common public knowledge. Its
existence was discovered by OpenNet Asia research, which revealed that a group of computer
science researchers from Kasetsart University in Bangkok were commissioned by CAT Telecom,
a state enterprise that runs major IIGs, to design the fi ltering system. For further details see