About Thaicom Public Company
Thaicom Public Company Limited provides satellite transponder leasing and related services, internet-related services, telephone-related services (overseas), and telephone directories and distribution. Products and Services Transponder Leasing Service The company provides customers with C-band and Ku-band transponder capacity for full time or occasional use. This can support Telecommunications Trunking, VSAT, Satellite News Gathering (SNG), Analog TV, Digital DTH, and High Definition TV. In addition, various C-band and Ku-band transponders on THAICOM satellites are allocated for occasional short-term video transmission applications, such as live television of special events, program transmission or backhaul services and SNG. Video Broadcasting Service The company offers Teleport Services, Direct-to-Home (DTH) Services, Channel Distribution Services, Global Television Service, and High Definition Television (HDTV) Services. Teleport Services: Its teleport services include: Uplink and Downlink, Studio and Tape Play Facilities – The preparation and broadcast of live or recorded programming, Digital signal compression, Satellite Turnaround – Signal collection from one satellite for transmission to another satellite, Conditional Access, Satellite News Gathering – Mobile signal transmission service, and High Definition Television (HDTV) Transmission Service. Direct-to-Home (DTH) Service: The company offers a digital signal compression and transmission services through satellite directly to residential customers. In addition, viewers can use small antennas (sub-meter) to receive the digital channel directly. Thaicom’s services enable its customers to provide various content and channel options to their direct-to-home viewers, including service tiering and packaging, pay-per-view and near video-on-demand, electronic program guides and preview channels, home shopping, interactive ordering and advertising. Channel Distribution service: The company provides a range of teleport and satellite transponder services to Thai and international television stations and broadcasters that require a means to distribute their live or recorded programming to cable operators or to signal repeaters located throughout the coverage areas of Thaicom satellites. Thaicom global beam allows the customers to re-broadcast their television programs up to 120 countries in four continents, Asia, Europe, Australia and Africa. Global Television Service: The company combines its channel distribution service with other satellite operators for satellite capacity and turnaround services for DTH re-broadcasting with a range of services to direct to homes operators in North America, Europe and Australia to a variety of domestic and international television broadcasters. The Global Digital TV Service includes digital compression service, uplink service, and transponder leasing service. High Definition Television (HDTV) Service: The company offers High Definition Television (HDTV) transmission services (a digital broadcasting) using the THAICOM 5 platform. Internet Via Satellite Service - ProTrunk The company offers ProTrunk service which is a high speed Internet trunk connection through Thaicom satellites to the Internet network designed for carriers/ IAPs/ ISPs from one of the company’ s gateway partners in various countries directly to the customer's network through satellite thereby bypassing congested terrestrial lines. ProTrunk services are categorized into three types: Simplex, Symmetrical, and Asymmetrical Duplex services. Each service provides inbound (downstream) with speed ranging from 64Kbps to 45Mbps and with various combinations of outbound (upstream) speeds too. History Thaicom Public Company was founded in 1991. The company was formerly known as Shin Satellite Public Company Limited and changed its name to Thaicom Public Company in April 2008.
