A Democrat executive yesterday urged the government to turn Internet and telephone services into public services as part of the country's information technology reform. MP Alongkorn Pollabutr, who attended the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva last week, said the government must make the changes in order to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor.
"Like other public utilities, the Internet and phone services should be made public and affordable even to the poor,'' Mr Alongkorn said.
Given the government's ambitious e-government scheme, Internet services should be provided free of charge while mobile phone services should cost no more than one baht a minute, he said.
Quelle: Bangkok Post, 17.12.2003
