Communications Authority of Thailand
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| State-owned | |
| Industry | Telecommunication |
| Founded | 14 August 2003 |
| Headquarters | Bangkok, Thailand |
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Area served
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Thailand |
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Key people
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General Sirichai Distakul (Chairman) |
| Revenue |
 TH฿ 76.02 billion (2013) |
 TH฿ 11.27 billion (2013) |
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| Total assets |
TH฿ 175.8 billion (2013) |
| Total equity |
TH฿ 41.25 billion (2013) |
| Website | www |
CAT Telecom Public Company Limited is the state-owned company that runs Thailand’s international telecommunications infrastructure, including its international gateways, satellite, and submarine cable networks connections. As of February 2008, it had 5,562 employees and is based in Bangkok (Lak Si District).
Until recently, CAT had a monopoly on international telephony and CDMA mobile telephony. CAT is partnered with TOT to provide the GSM mobile service "ThaiMobile". In partnership with Hutchison, it provides a CDMA2000 1X mobile service in 25 central provinces, and operates its own CDMA2000 1xEV-DO in a further 51 provinces. CAT also provides data communications and applications services, such as Leased Line, Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTx), Gigabit Ethernet, xDSL, Live TV Broadcast, e-Commerce, e-Auction, and e-Security.
Over half of CAT's revenue comes from its mobile concession contracts, Total Access Communication (TAC, dtac Brand), True Move (TM), and Digital Phone Company (DPC, GSM1800 Brand).
Established on August 14, 2003, by the government of Thaksin Shinawatra, CAT Telecom was originally known as the Communications Authority of Thailand. Plans were under way to privatize a portion of the state enterprise through an IPO in the but these plans were cancelled after the Thaksin government was overthrown by a coup on 19 September 2006. Soon after the coup, the junta of General Surayud Chulanont announced plans to merge CAT Telecom with rival state telecom enterprise TOT (formerly the Telephone Organization of Thailand).
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