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Internet. Thailand's connection to the Internet began in 1987 via the Australian Research and Education Network using UUCP and SUNIII [1] which transformed to full TCP/IP in 1992 to UUNET. [2] This marked Thailand as an early participant in bringing the Internet to Asia. As of 2021, Thailand has made significant progress, with an 85% internet ...
Internet censorship is conducted by the Royal Thai Police, the Communications Authority of Thailand, and the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT). [13][14] Prior to the September 2006 military coup d'état, 34,411 web sites were blocked by all three government agencies.
Censorship by country. Censorship in Thailand involves the strict control of political news under successive governments, including by harassment and manipulation. Freedom of speech was guaranteed in 1997 [1] and those guarantees continue in 2007. [2] Mechanisms for censorship have included strict lèse-majesté laws, direct government/military ...
An internationalized country code top-level domain (IDN ccTLD) is a top-level domain with a specially encoded domain name that is displayed in an end user application, such as a web browser, in its native language script or a non-alphabetic writing system, such as Latin script (.us, .uk and .br), Indic script (. भारत) and Korean script (.
Fixed-line. There are three fixed-line telephone operators in Thailand: state-owned TOT Public Company Limited (now known as National Telecom (NT)), True Corporation, and TT&T (Currently name "3BB"). As of 2014, there were 5,687,038 fixed-line subscriptions. That number has been in decline since 2008.
Thailand is an emerging economy and is considered a newly industrialised country. Thailand had a 2017 GDP of US$1.236 trillion (on a purchasing power parity basis). [202] Thailand is the second largest economy in Southeast Asia after Indonesia.
Below is a sortable list of countries by number of Internet users as of 2024. Internet users are defined as persons who accessed the Internet in the last 12 months from any device, including mobile phones. [ Note 1 ] Percentage is the percentage of a country's population that are Internet users. Estimates are derived either from household ...
Mass media in Thailand. Thailand has a well-developed mass media sector, especially by Southeast Asian standards. The Thai government and the military have long exercised considerable control, especially over radio and TV stations. During the governments of Thaksin Shinawatra [1] and the subsequent military-run administration after the 2006 ...