ABSTRACT
Chapter five provided the case studies of Thailand’s national telecommunications regulators. Based on the reported findings of chapter five, chapter six provides a cross case analysis of these national telecommunications regulators in Thailand. The descriptive findings of the strategic planning for the establishment of a regulatory body, a National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), is provided here. This chapter has also endeavoured to consider the transformation of the actual TSPP into a NTSPP in Thailand. The rationale for writing a cross case analysis was given in chapters three, four, and five. Five additional interviews were conducted in order to add additional views on a National Telecommunications Strategic Planning Process (NTSPP). The respondent’s were from the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MOTC), the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB), the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), and the Thai Telephone and Telecommunications (TT&T). Each of the five in-depth interview sessions lasted for approximately 100 to 120 minutes. These data will be used here in addition to the TOT, the CAT and the PTD case reports for generating a theoretical basis and justifications for a NTSPP in Thailand.
