ISPs chided over slow broadband

The Thai Webmaster Association (TWA) is encouraging internet service providers to ramp up speeds and lower service rates after tests showed that their broadband speeds were lower than what they advertised.

"Broadband speed was just 80% of what they claimed in advertisements,'' said Pol Col Yanapol Yangyuen, the association's president.

He said the result was based on tests done by the TWA and the Thai Telecommunications Consumer Protection Institute (TCI) via www.speedtest.or.th from Aug 24 to Oct 25.

For example, he said, if a user subscribed to a service claiming a 10 Mbps rate, the actual speed was just 8 Mbps.

He said that 846,737 broadband users participated throughout the two-month test. While download speeds were 20% lower than claimed, upload speeds were far lower.

Among all ISPs, Samart Corp offered the best services with both download and upload speeds almost the same.

For True Corporation, he said, download speed averaged 8 Mbps while upload speed was just 1 Mbps.
Triple T Broadband which provides the Max-net service, delivered 78% of advertised download speed, Internet Solution and Service Provider 70%, CS Loxinfo 69%, TOT 68%, I-Net 64% and CAT Telecom 51%.

Pol Col Yanapol also said that each ISP needed to improve service quality, and in particular to narrow the gap between download and upload speeds.

Wish I received 80% of the advertised speed!!!!!!

Wish is ALL you can do....After all it is a "developing developed country"...or was it the other way around??? Nevertheless, the same tone resonates...money to be made?...then flog it even if the infrastructure is lacking or in some cases obsolete!!

Hasn't anyone noticed the batteries sold here are always only half or a third full??? Or the full warranty sold at purchase was only a 50% warranty when ya need to rectify an issue with your product!!!

Not to mention the skin tax....