Abstract
This article considers recent Thai communication policy as a case study of some of the tensions in Asian communications regulation. Thailand is now reregulating its communications after a period of boom and bust. With the new 1997 Constitution, there is an expectation that regulation should ensure more public oversight oftelecoms and broadcasting, formerly the province of state agencies, the Army and big business (Ubonrat, 1997). One problem for reformers, however, is the prospect of telecom and broadcasting regulation being combined. This could subordinate public interest considerations to the free-market culture prevailing in telecom regulation. Broadcasting and telecommunications have historically been distinct in terms of their regulatory institutions, in Australia as well as Thailand (Barr, 2000: 22). Another issue is that as the power of the Army and the state agencies is being challenged, new private monopolies are replacing them.
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