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Most of the predictive dialers work with PBXs digital recordings, VOIP gateways and ACDs. These are known to work in a system that is totally based on performance. This facilitates easy access to all requisite tools that makes a modern call center effective and performance oriented. Almost all hosted systems function with a mission to improve overall performance of the agents that dedicatedly utilize multi faceted systems each day. This also allows these agents to enjoy a comprehensible setting to work from. This goal is significant to prove success for customer service center. The customer center requires updating communications systems on a daily basis.

These systems must be enhanced regularly to ensure maintenance of various crucial predictive dialer goals. This further results in easy access to the most updated equipments and systems that helps your organization run in a more smooth and efficient manner. Assigning various targets is very crucial for your organization’s success. The system requires delivering excellent performance in the following areas:

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The system is also efficient in will bargaining between varying time zones. The bets thing to do is to keep the agents on top of your preference list. This will motivate them to work harder and remain productive. It is important for the system to create a do-not call list for customers who should not be called back. This will help agents in saving time in calling those who will not be of any use to the production and profit enhancement of your organization.

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Indian mobile industry was started almost 10 years before, because of Govt. regulation it couldn’t grow like China. As per current estimation India’s mobile services market is expected to grow at 28.3% CAGR through 2009. But the market is also very much competitive, all the players are keen to increase the market share, so the prices are getting slashed. The current players in the market are -

o Reliance Infocomm

o Bharati Telecom (AirTel)

o BSNL

o Tata Teleservice

o Spice Telecom

o Hutchison / Orange

o BPL Telecom

The industry is moving from the Growth stage to the Shakeout stage, although the market is growing fast, but the Cut-throat Competition is slashing the profit margins, which is very common in Later Growth stage and players those who don’t have strong financial back up are going to be sold to the stronger players. So it’s very clear that players with stronger brand and financial back up will make the future profit.

The bigger players are also operating in other Telecom areas like – Landline, ISP, Broadband, Corporate data & voice services etc, to become one stop solution provider, hence forth increase the market share, this clearly indicates the Sorry situation for the smaller players. Entry barrier for any new player is too strong.

Once the Shakeout period is over in next few years the Mobile Industry in India is likely to enter in matured market.

But there is a other theory too – the economic growth in India, currently the market is growing more on the Network area growth, providers are moving to smaller cities from big cities, demand is generated from ‘B’ class & ‘C’ class cities – middle class population. A major section of middle class population of India in smaller cities couldn’t enjoy the advantages of Telecom service due to the Govt. monopoly, poor capacity, regulations; they are the immediate customers of the Mobile operators. The Landline is no more the preferable choice for the new Telco users; people like to use mobile phones because of its added advantages and easy subscription. Also the middle class size is expected to grow in India in next decades, so the Mobile market in India will be probably in Growth – Shakeout phase for a longer period.

Also the Roadmap, which was thought by the Govt. earlier has become more like a roadblock for the growth, to keep the market competitive they introduced lot regulations and zoning concepts, which have become barrier for market growth and to play at Economies of scale, which are likely to change by the market dynamics and market forces. So the Growth – Shakeout phase is likely to continue for a while. Few years before the number of players were many, as TRAI had stringent laws in number of zone operations by single provider, but these are changing rapidly.

o Service Providers Offerings

India is a vast and complex market. The Indian Department of Telecommunications classifies the country’s telecom markets into “metro” and “A”, “B” and “C” circles or zones, based on how many potential subscribers they have. For example, the C circles refer to rural areas and are the least attractive sectors with very little wealth. The 1999 National Telecom Act defined a phased telecom deregulation with national operator, VSNL, privatized in April 2002.

The cellular market is divided into 4 metro areas, 5 circle A areas, 8 circle B areas and 5 circle C areas. When all the cellular licensees become operational, India will be served by 77 networks. This segmentation of the market and licensees has certainly not helped the growth of the Indian market. These Network is increasing very fast, as companies want to tap the middle class population in smaller cities, and technological development, they are able to increase the Network boundary with lesser investment and also the competition.

Indian mobile operators offerings are segmented in two broad categories – Pre-paid and Post-paid. Although mobile market is growing positively, the Post-paid market is declining and Pre-paid market is increasing by leaps and bounds.

TRAI regulations and Indian consumer behavior are causing for the growth in Pre-paid market. As the revenue in pre-paid offer is increasing in Circle ‘A’ and Circle ‘B’ for Economies at scale, the Pre-paid market share is going to be the more important. When Reliance InfoComm came into the market, they didn’t realize this initially, but very soon they came with Pre-paid offer.

o Brief on Customer Service Gap Model

First analyze the Provider Gap

o Market Information Gap – Not knowing what Customers Expect: The Company’s incomplete or inaccurate knowledge of customers’ service expectations.

Key Factors -

o Inadequate marketing research orientation

o Lack of upward communication

o Insufficient relationship focus

o Inadequate service recovery

2. Service Standards Gap – Not having right standard and design: The Company’s failure to translate accurately customers’ service expectations into specifications or guidelines for employees.

Key Factors -

o Poor service design

o Absence of customer-defined standards

o Inappropriate physical evidence and Servicescape

3. Service Performance Gap – Delivery lag: Lack of appropriate internal support systems (e.g., recruitment, training, technology, compensation) that enable employees to deliver to service standards.

Key Factors -

o Deficiencies in HR policies

o Not match Supply & Demand capacity

o Customers failed to meet their roles

o Intermediaries problem

4. Internal Communication Gap – Promises don’t match: Inconsistencies between what customers are told the service will be like and the actual service performance [e.g., due to lack of internal communication between the service 'promisers' (such as salespeople) and service providers (such as after-sales service representatives)].

Key Factors -

o Lack of Integrated services marketing communication

o Ineffective management of Customer expectation

o Over promising

o Inadequate horizontal communication

Companies wishing to improve their service quality must diagnose the four organizational gaps and take appropriate corrective action to close them. An important message for managers from this overall implication is that a mere external focus (e.g., being customer-oriented and conducting periodic customer-satisfaction surveys) is not sufficient for delivering superior service. Managers must also systematically analyze and correct potential deficiencies within the organization.

Customer perceptions are subjective assessments of actual service experiences; customer expectations are the standards of, or reference points for, performance against which service experiences are compared. The sources of customer expectations consist of market-controlled factors, such as advertising, as well as factors that the marketer has limited ability to affect, such as innate personal needs. Ideally, expectations and perceptions are identical: customers perceive that they think they will and should. In practice, a customer gap typically exists. Good marketing strategies reduces this gap.

o Indian Consumers Behavior & Gap Model

This section is analyzed in following sub-sections -

o Consumer Perceptions -

What do you see?? Perception is the process of selecting, organizing and interpreting information inputs to produce meaning, i.e. we chose what info we pay attention to, organize it and interpret it. Information inputs are the sensations received through sight, taste, hearing, smell and touch. This is very important factor for Indian consumers, as the average literacy level is low in India. People want to judge the quality of service with more on Physical evidences comparing to western world, where people rely on the specifications.

As Mobile Telecom service is ‘Remote Service’, people don’t see any infrastructure of Network, consumers want to see the Front offices / people of the provider. This was realized by Reliance very quickly, they offered the Handset on Mail order basis which didn’t work out well, immediately they started opening retail store which brought lot of success for them, even entering late in the market. AirTel (Bharti), Hutch, Spice offer this presence through the dealer network and selective retail store. But provider direct presence is more valuable.

BSNL being the poor customer handler, they are still able to keep large market share because of their physical presence. But this concept is changing gradually amongst young generation.

Usually the Indian consumers see large gaps in Gap4, and they believe that Physical presence can only reduce this gap, Physical presence also helps provider to get feedback quickly and reduce Gap1.

o Learning & Communications – In India this process is comparatively slower than western world or developed countries. So the communication to the consumers play much bigger role than here, the need for mobile communication is much more in Rural India and cities, but the impediments are the cost and learning process. As the costs of mobile services are coming down, the opportunity in Rural India will grow. But the providers and operators have to communicate much more in teaching the people.

TSPs also need to encourage some retails network in Rural India, which can offer cheaper service, like HLL or P&G offers 1 Rs packet for their toiletries products, or ITC offers Internet centers in villages of several states. Tech. MNCs (AMD is releasing cheaper chips, Dell is coming up with low end PCs) are trying to come with tailored products for the emerging markets, which can be cheaper, less features, and easy to use.

Bharti planned to open a SMS based public booth Network in cities few years before, but that business plan became infeasible as SMS prices dropped like a falling rock. But potential for similar mobile public booth in Rural India is very high.

Learning & Communications are more required to close Gap 3 and Gap 4.

o Perceived risks -

In service risk assessed as it is consumed and experience, also ‘Word-of-Mouth’. People perceive more risk in service than products, because of its’ intangibility. In India this is more because of rudimentary legal framework, the Consumer protection is much less than developed country. This is one ‘Major Reason’ also for booming Pre-paid market than Post-paid. TSPs have to offer some kind of financial warranty in case of Post-paid connection. So far the experience of Indian consumers with Govt. Telecom organization is very poor.

Physical presence and financial back up required more to reduce the risk factors. The risk will be perceived less as Gap 3 and Gap 4 will be closing.

o Group Dynamics -

This is one of the most important factors in Indian market, here ‘Word-of-Mouth’ is much powerful than any other communication, and people follow their families, friends, and social groups. The Market communication from TSPs should keep this in mind.

The Call Plan should consider this with high importance, some mobile operators are considering this factor, but there is no still Customer analysis or segmentation done. Group dynamics consideration should be taken care in closing Gap 3.

Customer Service Quality analysis

Extensive qualitative and empirical research-spanning multiple phases, covering a variety of sectors, and involving a number of companies-suggests the following general insights about how customers assess service quality. Firstly, customer-defined service quality stems from a comparison of customers’ service expectations (i.e., their mental standards about what a company ought to provide by way of service) with their perceptions of the delivered service.

Secondly, customers evaluate the nature and extent of the gap between their perceptions and expectations along five broad service attributes (listed below in decreasing order of importance):

Reliability: Ability to perform the promised service dependably and accurately. This is more dependent on the Technology and Network Infrastructure is used, Indian TSPs are at per or near per with Global standards in this regard.

Responsiveness: Willingness to help customers and provide prompt service. – This one major are Indian Mobile operators are lagging and lot of work needed to be done.

Assurance: Knowledge and courtesy of employees and their ability to inspire trust and confidence. This is also another lagging area.

Empathy: Caring, individualized attention the firm provides its customers. This is also another lagging area.

Tangibles: Appearance of physical facilities, equipment, personnel, and communication materials. Mobile service is ‘Remote Service’; the Tangibility needs to be created other ways.

The Evidence of Service

Because Services are intangible, customers are searching for evidence of service in every interaction they make with the provider. Here is the general diagram -

People

- Contact Employees

- Customer him / herself

- Other customers

Process

- Operational flow of activities

- Steps in process

- Flexibility vs. Std.

- Technology vs. Human

Physical Evidence

- Tangible communication

- Servicescpe

- Promises

- Technology

- Internet integration

Service Quality Key Drivers -

o Employee (Call Agents) training

o Employee motivation

o Employee empowerment (This is highly lagging, still the managers take the decision, by that time customer loose patience and run away.)

o Retail outlets to ensure tangibility (has to be done more organized way, tie-up with Super market chains etc.)

o Measure service delivery / customer satisfaction

o Right BSS and CRM Solution

Need for CRM Solution -

With a CRM package sitting on the top of billing software, it can generate various kinds of data for the company to understand the service preferences, usage pattern and demographic nature of its customers. Previously it was a few discreet parameters. Now with a separate software package seamlessly integrated with the billing modules, the service providers can build relationships among different parameters to take important business decisions. A normal CRM package has around 12 odd modules from contact center management, campaign management, customer profiling to sales management. All these can help a mobile telecom company create an efficient sale and marketing and customer care operations. Using CRM as marketing and customer care tools, the telecom companies can differentiate their services for different strata of customers. For example profiling and segmentation of customers open up new marketing opportunities. With the help of a good CRM tool, a customer base can be divided into different segments and subsegments. Take the case of students as a group. Then one can have school and college students. Then the locality from where these students are coming. So segmentation can go on and on. It helps a mobile company to understand what a customer wants and the nature of services the company should deliver to prevent churning.

Segmentation is really important in Indian market as Demographics variation is very high here, so the System should be flexible enough to work with different process flows, different types of Service delivery, specially the very less focus made on Pre-paid market for customer satisfaction, where as pre-paid market stands for the larger share. Most of the operators consider pre-paid users as Anonymous, as they consider the ‘Exit Barrier’ is less in Pre-paid connection, where as the ‘Exit Barrier” is almost same as Post-paid, typically consumers consider the hassle of changing Mobile number and new SIM card cost as ‘Exit Barrier’.

Recommendations & Conclusion

Till today all the Mobile Operators are focused on Transactional Marketing (Get new customers) than Relationship Marketing (Retaining old customers). They are more focused on increasing Network area and circles – which is definitely require. And India has a huge market, which is fragmented in nature and too many customer segments – geography, income, age, language spoken, culture. Relationship Marketing is not much emphasized in India but the Industry, which is too competitive and can be operated remotely, this will be more important.

As the Industry will move towards mature stage (as happening in Developed countries), Relationship Marketing is more required and it needs to start now. The communication was pathetic till late 90s, but as it improves the Regional customers information sharing will increase.

Also the operators should come with new Business plans for Rural Areas, there is huge market in Mobile Data & Voice communication, there is huge potential but proper learning tool and communication required. As the Wireless Network cost is reducing, the focus in rural area will become important.

Final Recommendation List to Close Customer Gaps -

o Relationship Marketing focus

o Employee management

o Service focus on Pre-paid market

o New Business Ideas for Rural market

o Usage of right CRM tool

Worked as Business Analyst in CRM, Sales & Services software applications in Telecom and High-Tech industry, currenty started own venture in Software As Service are, Chikpea Inc. www.chikpea.com. Take your Business Online!

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Koh Samet is an island or ‘koh’ in transliterated Thai. It is close to Rayong which is about 2 hours from Bangkok by private car or taxi. The island is roughly the shape of Thailand itself.

We caught a bus from the Eastern Bus Terminal in Bangkok which is close to the Ekkamai BTS Skytrain Station on Sukhumvit Road.

We went as a group of four and paid 15 baht each from mid-Sukhumvit Soi 22 in a taxi. The bus trip cost 157 baht each. They told us it would take 2 1/2 hours but it was 3 1/2 hours before we reached the Ban Phe Pier which is where our Koh Samet boat was to leave.

The bus stopped quite often to let people on and off. The trip was unpleasant because although it was a reasonable quality of bus, the driver decided to play a TV program blaringly loud. The program was a Thai sitcom or soap opera and it was far too loud to be ignored.

The program was performed by adults but it was so infantile that it was unwatchable. Luckily, either the TV or the DVD player system broke down about an hour into the journey. But it was not long before it was replaced by Thai music which was also played very loudly. The speakers in the bus were arranged in a way that this noise could not be avoided.

Again luckily I had bought some ear plugs. They were the wax kind that reduce noise the most and they are essential for budget travel in Thailand. I have traveled on Thai buses before.

I noticed a few things in particular on the journey to the Pier. There were a large number of partially completed industrial, commercial, and residential buildings which had been abandoned part way through construction. This represents, of course, a tremendous waste of resources and labour and was very surprising. I think many of them may have been built in the mid-nineties boom period, and then failed through lack of finance.

The building were spaced, in many cases all on their own and not part of a group of buildings or industrial area. This is a very inefficient way to run business because of the extra costs.

Another thing I noticed were vast tracts of land – if you added the individual pieces together – with long grass on them which were carrying no stock at all. The grass was just growing and no one was making any money from it. Another waste of resources, and valuable land. Thailand has some of the most fertile land in the world and as I come from New Zealand, it always seems like a great shame to me; this agricultural waste.

Finally, there were many quite beautiful temples on the trip which occupied choice positions – at least looking from the bus travelling down the motorway. In some cases the temples were on the only raised piece of land in the immediate area, and this fact showed their importance to Thai people.

We got to the Rayong late and quite hungry. After purchasing tickets for Koh Samet – 100 baht each return – we had lunch at the Iier which was ok. The Som Tam was excellent but the bill of 400 baht seemed a little high.

The boat trip was in an old blue twin decked motor boat. It was enjoyable for me being back in salt air again after a long absence from it. Once we reached Koh Samet we had to find some accommodation. After talking to a few people we found that the best beaches which were close were called Ao Phrao and Ao Phai.

There are some good maps at the entrance to the Koh Samet Pier and also an information office with a person who spoke quite good English. Ao Phrao was twice as far as Ao Phai and also more expensive.

Before we had gone very far, the taxi/ute vehicle stopped and an official of some kind appeared wanting 200 baht from all foreigners and 40 baht from the Thais. Frankly, I was disgusted. I have seen this double pricing before at the Sarika Waterfall in Nakhon Nayok.

We had no choice but to pay. It was apparently some kind of National Park fee, as part or all of Koh Samet is a National Park. It was interesting that they did not charge us this at the beginning of the journey as we might have just got on the boat and gone back to Rayong. No, it was charged after we had gone too far to walk back easily carrying our packs!

We agreed on a fare of 40 baht each in a ute taxi to Ao Phrao but got off at Ao Phai. We were charged 30 baht each.

They do not spend any of this money on the roads because the roads were dreadful. Unbelievably bad in fact. Bits of concrete edges exposed, pot-holes everywhere and generally an absolute mess which is strange because the island has one of the lowest annual rainfalls in Thailand.

There were bits of reinforcing wire sticking out of decayed grey slabs of concrete in some places. It was the case all over the island except in a couple of small sections of road.

It is very important if hiring a motorcycle in Koh Samet to check that it has off-road tyres because you most certainly need them. Road tyres on a motorcycle would make riding them impossible, such is the state of the roading system.

We looked at two places to stay; the Silversand Resort and a European-run resort which was some distance from the beach. The tout had told us it was 50 metres from the beach, but it was more like 400 metres. This second place was quite cheap at 800 baht a day including wifi and World Cup Football.

We decided to stay at the Silversand Resort. They told us that every room had wifi internet.

The normal price was 2,500 baht for a room with a sea view. We looked at one of these, and the only sea view was a sliver of water through the gap between the two villas in front of the room we were looking at – no sea view at all.

We should have taken this as a sign of what was to come!

We got a standard room without a sea view at 1,200 baht per night which was discounted from the regular price of 1,500 baht (according to the brochure). The air conditioning worked, but the safe deposit box and the wifi internet did not.

At the office they said there was no problem with the internet. Other people were using it. We approached other people and they could not get internet either. The couple in the room next to us were not able to get internet at any time in the first two days.

Again we were told there was no problem. It was our computers. We tried all the passwords and other usernames they gave us and nothing worked. We had to go outside the resort where the rates were 2 baht per minute; about double the price in Bangkok. This added considerably to the cost of our rooms.

The Silversand Resort found the next day, they said, that they had given the wrong usernames out to guests. The new ones didn’t work either. They had clearly lied about the wifi system. It was not until our last night of the three nights we stayed that the internet worked.

The staff continued to lie to us and to other guests while usually giggling at the same time in that unique Thai way when they have when they have been caught out.

When we tried to get our bills reduced because of the extra costs we incurred they told us wifi was free and therefore they could not refund those extra costs because we had not been charged for wifi. The fact that we needed wifi and checked before paying for our rooms did not matter to them. It was typical of this third-rate resort.

They Silversand Resort had an internet cafe and for the first day they even insisted on charging us 2 baht per minute for it. The staff member in the internet cafe was very rude, at one point shoving me to get to the LAN cable. We all went outside the Resort for internet. They waived the fee on the second day but I did not go back there because of the staff member.

The food which we ate at the Silversand Resort was very ordinary, and we took most of our meals outside at restaurants. There was a fly problem in the Resort around food. As soon as you got food in front of you the flies came – many and big and aggressive. To eat at the Silversand Resort I had to eat with one hand and wave the flies away continuously with the other. I did not see the state of their kitchen.

The Silversand Resort also had loud music which continued every day until 3 am. It did not end there because there were two construction projects going which started up in the morning including the use of concrete grinders. These noises did not wake me up fortunately but made it less than pleasant to sit outside the room.

The beach was ok, and it was fenced off showing the sandy bottom areas. But I can not recommend this Resort as a good place to stay. We were very disappointed and we would never dream of going back there.

Further down the beach we went to a fire dancing show put on by another resort which was quite spectacular, except for the accelerant fumes. Also, a ball of fire landed in the audience from a misjudged throw – no one was hurt thankfully. It was a show worth going to but sit well back from the big cans of accelerant.

At the entrance to the Silversand Resort, there is motorcycle hire at 400 baht per day for an automatic or 300 baht for a manual transmission. We hired a couple of bikes but we quickly discovered when riding them that they were much cheaper closer to the pier; around 250 baht per day.

We drove all over the island on motorcycles and it was so beautiful. There are many resorts on the island and many different prices. The only let-down was the amount of rubbish which seemed to be scattered around the dwellings of the locals. Other a magic motorcycle ride!

Rooms were also much cheaper away from the resorts. We had not found them on the internet when we searched online from Bangkok. Prices are as low as 500 to 700 baht. It is best to find accommodation in Koh Samet on arrival, especially if it is low season.

If you have not been there before, as we had not, then the temptation to take the first reasonable thing you find is high. It is best to travel to Koh Samet Island early in the morning from Rayong so that you can spend a couple of hours looking around for the best accommodation deals. It is always the panic that sets in – for me anyway – late afternoon and early evening if I don’t have a place to stay.

Near the Silversand Resort is the Ao Phai Travel Agency. In Bangkok you get about 32.2 baht per US$ at the moment. Here we were charged additional fees of 3% to change US$ 100.

Of course you have no option if you have come without plenty of baht. It is best to change money in Bangkok or another mainland centre before travelling to Koh Samet.

Overall, prices were a lot higher than the mainland. Food, accommodation, clothing, and bars were all considerably more expensive. The beaches were nice especially Ao Noina which we swam in first and also where we watched locals digging with spoons for shellfish on the beach.

This was my first time in the water in Thailand and I was very surprised at the warmth of the water. It was very enjoyable, as are most Koh Samet beaches.

Most of the Thais on the Island are friendly and offer a ready smile to visitors.

Koh Samet can be affordable but the budget traveller should consider the following 10 Tips to get the best value from their stay:

1. Get accommodation on arrival. It can be as low as 300 baht per night.
2. Hire motorcycles outside and away from the resorts if you are staying in the resorts.
3. Do not buy clothes, sunglasses or shoes on Koh Samet.
4. Change the money you will need into baht before you travel to the island.
5. Check that the wifi internet operates before you pay for your room. If not, negotiate a lower price.
6. Take your own coffee and tea – our resort had none in the rooms – and no jug either.
7. Take a photo of a motorcycle you hire before you leave on it as proof of pre-existing damage.
8. If you do not like loud music try and see if there is any before you rent your room.
9. Just relax and do not expect Western service standards or the truth necessarily.
10. Avoid the Silversand Resort – not a good place to stay!

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Koh Samet is an island or ‘koh’ in transliterated Thai. It is close to Rayong which is about 2 hours from Bangkok by private car or taxi. The island is roughly the shape of Thailand itself.

We caught a bus from the Eastern Bus Terminal in Bangkok which is close to the Ekkamai BTS Skytrain Station on Sukhumvit Road.

We went as a group of four and paid 15 baht each from mid-Sukhumvit Soi 22 in a taxi. The bus trip cost 157 baht each. They told us it would take 2 1/2 hours but it was 3 1/2 hours before we reached the Ban Phe Pier which is where our Koh Samet boat was to leave.

The bus stopped quite often to let people on and off. The trip was unpleasant because although it was a reasonable quality of bus, the driver decided to play a TV program blaringly loud. The program was a Thai sitcom or soap opera and it was far too loud to be ignored.

The program was performed by adults but it was so infantile that it was unwatchable. Luckily, either the TV or the DVD player system broke down about an hour into the journey. But it was not long before it was replaced by Thai music which was also played very loudly. The speakers in the bus were arranged in a way that this noise could not be avoided.

Again luckily I had bought some ear plugs. They were the wax kind that reduce noise the most and they are essential for budget travel in Thailand. I have traveled on Thai buses before.

I noticed a few things in particular on the journey to the Pier. There were a large number of partially completed industrial, commercial, and residential buildings which had been abandoned part way through construction. This represents, of course, a tremendous waste of resources and labour and was very surprising. I think many of them may have been built in the mid-nineties boom period, and then failed through lack of finance.

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We got to the Rayong late and quite hungry. After purchasing tickets for Koh Samet – 100 baht each return – we had lunch at the Iier which was ok. The Som Tam was excellent but the bill of 400 baht seemed a little high.

The boat trip was in an old blue twin decked motor boat. It was enjoyable for me being back in salt air again after a long absence from it. Once we reached Koh Samet we had to find some accommodation. After talking to a few people we found that the best beaches which were close were called Ao Phrao and Ao Phai.

There are some good maps at the entrance to the Koh Samet Pier and also an information office with a person who spoke quite good English. Ao Phrao was twice as far as Ao Phai and also more expensive.

Before we had gone very far, the taxi/ute vehicle stopped and an official of some kind appeared wanting 200 baht from all foreigners and 40 baht from the Thais. Frankly, I was disgusted. I have seen this double pricing before at the Sarika Waterfall in Nakhon Nayok.

We had no choice but to pay. It was apparently some kind of National Park fee, as part or all of Koh Samet is a National Park. It was interesting that they did not charge us this at the beginning of the journey as we might have just got on the boat and gone back to Rayong. No, it was charged after we had gone too far to walk back easily carrying our packs!

We agreed on a fare of 40 baht each in a ute taxi to Ao Phrao but got off at Ao Phai. We were charged 30 baht each.

They do not spend any of this money on the roads because the roads were dreadful. Unbelievably bad in fact. Bits of concrete edges exposed, pot-holes everywhere and generally an absolute mess which is strange because the island has one of the lowest annual rainfalls in Thailand.

There were bits of reinforcing wire sticking out of decayed grey slabs of concrete in some places. It was the case all over the island except in a couple of small sections of road.

It is very important if hiring a motorcycle in Koh Samet to check that it has off-road tyres because you most certainly need them. Road tyres on a motorcycle would make riding them impossible, such is the state of the roading system.

We looked at two places to stay; the Silversand Resort and a European-run resort which was some distance from the beach. The tout had told us it was 50 metres from the beach, but it was more like 400 metres. This second place was quite cheap at 800 baht a day including wifi and World Cup Football.

We decided to stay at the Silversand Resort. They told us that every room had wifi internet.

The normal price was 2,500 baht for a room with a sea view. We looked at one of these, and the only sea view was a sliver of water through the gap between the two villas in front of the room we were looking at – no sea view at all.

We should have taken this as a sign of what was to come!

We got a standard room without a sea view at 1,200 baht per night which was discounted from the regular price of 1,500 baht (according to the brochure). The air conditioning worked, but the safe deposit box and the wifi internet did not.

At the office they said there was no problem with the internet. Other people were using it. We approached other people and they could not get internet either. The couple in the room next to us were not able to get internet at any time in the first two days.

Again we were told there was no problem. It was our computers. We tried all the passwords and other usernames they gave us and nothing worked. We had to go outside the resort where the rates were 2 baht per minute; about double the price in Bangkok. This added considerably to the cost of our rooms.

The Silversand Resort found the next day, they said, that they had given the wrong usernames out to guests. The new ones didn’t work either. They had clearly lied about the wifi system. It was not until our last night of the three nights we stayed that the internet worked.

The staff continued to lie to us and to other guests while usually giggling at the same time in that unique Thai way when they have when they have been caught out.

When we tried to get our bills reduced because of the extra costs we incurred they told us wifi was free and therefore they could not refund those extra costs because we had not been charged for wifi. The fact that we needed wifi and checked before paying for our rooms did not matter to them. It was typical of this third-rate resort.

They Silversand Resort had an internet cafe and for the first day they even insisted on charging us 2 baht per minute for it. The staff member in the internet cafe was very rude, at one point shoving me to get to the LAN cable. We all went outside the Resort for internet. They waived the fee on the second day but I did not go back there because of the staff member.

The food which we ate at the Silversand Resort was very ordinary, and we took most of our meals outside at restaurants. There was a fly problem in the Resort around food. As soon as you got food in front of you the flies came – many and big and aggressive. To eat at the Silversand Resort I had to eat with one hand and wave the flies away continuously with the other. I did not see the state of their kitchen.

The Silversand Resort also had loud music which continued every day until 3 am. It did not end there because there were two construction projects going which started up in the morning including the use of concrete grinders. These noises did not wake me up fortunately but made it less than pleasant to sit outside the room.

The beach was ok, and it was fenced off showing the sandy bottom areas. But I can not recommend this Resort as a good place to stay. We were very disappointed and we would never dream of going back there.

Further down the beach we went to a fire dancing show put on by another resort which was quite spectacular, except for the accelerant fumes. Also, a ball of fire landed in the audience from a misjudged throw – no one was hurt thankfully. It was a show worth going to but sit well back from the big cans of accelerant.

At the entrance to the Silversand Resort, there is motorcycle hire at 400 baht per day for an automatic or 300 baht for a manual transmission. We hired a couple of bikes but we quickly discovered when riding them that they were much cheaper closer to the pier; around 250 baht per day.

We drove all over the island on motorcycles and it was so beautiful. There are many resorts on the island and many different prices. The only let-down was the amount of rubbish which seemed to be scattered around the dwellings of the locals. Other a magic motorcycle ride!

Rooms were also much cheaper away from the resorts. We had not found them on the internet when we searched online from Bangkok. Prices are as low as 500 to 700 baht. It is best to find accommodation in Koh Samet on arrival, especially if it is low season.

If you have not been there before, as we had not, then the temptation to take the first reasonable thing you find is high. It is best to travel to Koh Samet Island early in the morning from Rayong so that you can spend a couple of hours looking around for the best accommodation deals. It is always the panic that sets in – for me anyway – late afternoon and early evening if I don’t have a place to stay.

Near the Silversand Resort is the Ao Phai Travel Agency. In Bangkok you get about 32.2 baht per US$ at the moment. Here we were charged additional fees of 3% to change US$ 100.

Of course you have no option if you have come without plenty of baht. It is best to change money in Bangkok or another mainland centre before travelling to Koh Samet.

Overall, prices were a lot higher than the mainland. Food, accommodation, clothing, and bars were all considerably more expensive. The beaches were nice especially Ao Noina which we swam in first and also where we watched locals digging with spoons for shellfish on the beach.

This was my first time in the water in Thailand and I was very surprised at the warmth of the water. It was very enjoyable, as are most Koh Samet beaches.

Most of the Thais on the Island are friendly and offer a ready smile to visitors.

Koh Samet can be affordable but the budget traveller should consider the following 10 Tips to get the best value from their stay:

1. Get accommodation on arrival. It can be as low as 300 baht per night.
2. Hire motorcycles outside and away from the resorts if you are staying in the resorts.
3. Do not buy clothes, sunglasses or shoes on Koh Samet.
4. Change the money you will need into baht before you travel to the island.
5. Check that the wifi internet operates before you pay for your room. If not, negotiate a lower price.
6. Take your own coffee and tea – our resort had none in the rooms – and no jug either.
7. Take a photo of a motorcycle you hire before you leave on it as proof of pre-existing damage.
8. If you do not like loud music try and see if there is any before you rent your room.
9. Just relax and do not expect Western service standards or the truth necessarily.
10. Avoid the Silversand Resort – not a good place to stay!

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In today’s modern times, phone companies no longer just offer telephony services, and neither do the Cable TV providers. These days both can offer any combination of Internet Access, Television and Telephony services.

Like with so many new developments, there are benefits and disadvantages to combining the three mentioned services. Let us have a closer look at the benefits we gain from combining Telephony, Internet and Television, but also the drawbacks.

Telephony

Combining all three services means you will receive them all digitally, instead of the old analogue situation, where you received each service separately. For your telephony services this means you will be calling through a system that is called Voice over IP (VoIP). The immediate benefits are cheaper phone calls, because VoIP telephony basically is Internet telephony, and the other immediate benefit is a better quality of telephony as voices will sound crisp and clear. Digital telephony means no loss of quality in sound and the signal is also not susceptible to distortions, unlike analogue telephony.

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Television

Digital television, delivers a much clearer signal, making HD broadcasts possible, and also enables other services, like Live Pause functionality and Video on Demand (VoD). The downside is that it goes through an Internet connection, just like your digital phone, and like with Analogue telephony, you may have an occasional bad reception with your analogue cable connection, you at least see a broadcast. Digital TV, like digital telephony either has a perfect connection or none at all.

Internet

A cable connection which also provides your internet services, offers fast connections at often high speeds. The downside is that cable is what we call a shared medium, while Broadband Internet through your phone line (DSL) is a dedicated medium. This means that on the same cable you get your internet connection through, every subscriber in your area is also connected, and you share the available speed, so at times your connection can be very slow, to be lightning fast at other times. DSL Internet does not have that problem, as the phone line that goes from your home to the datacenter of the ISP, is yours, and not shared with anyone else.

Combining the three

Combining Internet, television and Telephony, has many advantages, like higher Internet speeds, better quality of television reception, and cheaper phone calls, but besides the disadvantages as mentioned above there is two major drawbacks that should be taken into serious consideration:

When the Internet connection fails, so do all other services. While with separate services, one can go down, the other keep working, if your internet connection fails, there is also no more telephony and no more TV.

When electricity fails the phone fails also. Analogue telephony does not require power, and a simple phone would still work even when the power is out. Therefore it is highly recommended that even when you decide to switch over to digital telephony, to maintain at least one working analogue landline, in case of an emergency.

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All About T1 Line

One of the fastest Internet and telephone lines which businesses do avail of is the T1 line. In United States only, more than 3 million are already using this line. Although there are other Internet connections which are better than T1, still, its usage by people is continually increasing as each day passes by. Since it is mainly invented for businesses to avail of, they take the opportunity of being able to install T1 line to their business offices.

T1 has basically a high speed rate of 1.544 Megabits per second (Mbps). This is sixty (60) times faster than your old DSL Internet and telephone connection. With this speed rate, you can expect a constant communication with your customers, vendors and employees as well. Furthermore, the unproductiveness of your employees due to your old Internet and telephone line connection will lessen, or better yet, be eradicated. For you to be able to avail of this line connection, make sure that your users will reach between 5 to 50 users like your employees to function well. These T1 users can access of the line simultaneously without affecting the speed of the line connection. Moreover, you can also download and upload large files for your business simultaneously without affecting your bandwidth speed. Based on these facts, it is no wonder why T1 technology is known for being reliable and being a fast telephone and Internet line connection.

There are different types of T1 line which your business can avail of. The type which will be ideal to your business will depend on what your business needs when it comes to voice and data transmission and the level of T1 service it requires. The four main types of T1 are the following: Integrated T1, Fractional T1, Burstable T1, and the Bonded T1. Identify first if your business is small, medium, or large in size. Then you will be able to identify the right type of T1 connection for it.

With regards to the costs of T1 line, it is also famous being quite expensive. However, though you have to spend a quite large amount of money for it, you can be assured that it would not be put into waste. It is because T1 line is famous for being a cost-effective Internet and telephone line connection, based from the facts which were mentioned awhile ago. Therefore, you do not have to worry for future regrets later on when you opt for T1 line. Just be sure it is what your business needs.

A Type of T1 Line for Every Business

T1 line is basically invented for businesses to avail of. Businesses which used the traditional DSL line connection before have already shifted to T1 line connection. With its high speed rate of 1.544 Megabits per second (Mbps), every business would dream of having this Internet and telephone line connection in its office. Also, with its speed, constant connection is made possible especially for your employees who had become less productive due to your previous, slow Internet connection. If you will choose T1 line connection for your business, then expect that the less productiveness of your employees is going to be eradicated. It is no wonder why T1 line connection is popular to be a reliable Internet and telephone line connection for businesses. Moreover, there are different types of T1 line for every kind of business. The four most common types of T1 line are the following: Integrated T1, Fractional T1, Burstable T1, and Bonded T1 line.

The first type of T1 is the Integrated T1. This is basically ideal for medium sized businesses to avail of. It is also considered as the basic full type of T1 since you can use the full blast of T1 technology with this type. Used for voice and data transmission, its 24 channels which it can carry can be divided into two: a number of channels for voice transmission and the remaining channels for data transmission and signal. Also, the use high speed rate of 1.544 Mbps is possible for this type.

The second type, which is the Fractional T1, is ideal for small businesses to avail of. Based from its name, only a fraction of the full technology of t1 line is being used for this type. To be specific, you can only use a limited number of channels from the 24 channels a full T1 line can normally carry. The bandwidth speed will also be lessened but still appropriate for your business size. It is because a small business has only few requirements for T1 service and is not very demanding. On one hand, you can always use the remaining unutilized channels once your business grows.

The third type is Burstable T1which is known to be the most convenient type of T1. It is convenient because you only have to use and pay for the bandwidth that your business needs. You do not have to pay for the idle moments, if there is any, when you are still connected with your T1 line. This is only ideal if you do not use the T1 connection as often and if you are considering the price you must pay for the said line connection.

The last type is Bonded T1 in which you have to bond multiple numbers of T1 for this type. This bond creates a higher bandwidth speed ideal for large businesses.

How to Use T1 Line

Many people have already heard about T1 line especially those who own businesses. The said line is very famous for its high speed rate of 1.544 Megabits per second (Mbps) and the reliability you can gain from it. Aside from that, it is also known to be cost effective and has different types to suit different businesses as well. But how can someone really benefit from T1 technology? When do or can use it? Basically, you can use it in different ways. Some of these ways are In-House Website Hosting, Secure Data, ATM Purchases, and Telemarketing Sales Call Centers.

The first use of of T1 line is for In-House Website Hosting. There are businesses which do their hosting to their domains and wants to manipulate security and the features of its servers. The reason why using T1 is advantageous for this type of businesses is because they require the reliability of a connection which the said line can give. If you have a good T1 service provider, then it is better. Moreover, reliability is the most important factor to consider when you want to have a in-house domain in your business.

The second in line is securing data. There are some businesses which would want to have private access for their data. And for them, this data should only be shared among the branches of their business. The ideal type of T1 line for this type of business is none other than the Point-to-Point T1 connection.

The third use is for ATM purchases. Basically, people know that processing of ATM or credit cards is very famous during shopping or doing the groceries. A lot of people opt to choose ATM over money. This is the reason why T1 connection is needed because the reliability and bandwidth speeds banks look for is in this line. It is also because the speed of the bandwidth is not affected even though many people are using it simultaneously. Moreover, this line also helps the stores and banks be handled well despite the busy and hassle ambience of their stalls or establishments.

The fourth use would be for telemarketing companies or also known as call centers. To be more specific, voice T1 is ideal for this type of business. With the unlimited calls it receive every day, and the cost it will have for long distance calls, this T1 line has become an option for this business. Moreover, voice T1 is one of the reasons for the productivity of call centers nowadays due to its reliability and its fast bandwidth speed.

These are only some of the famous uses of T1 line. There are still many advantages which you can get if your business opt for a T1 connection.

Updates for T1 line for your Growing Needs

T1 line has been already famous for many years. Businesses still opt to use it despite the many lines connections now available for them to use. Every business, whether small, medium, or large in its size benefits from the reliability and the fast speed rate of 1.544 Megabits per second (Mbps) that a T1 connection has. However, the needs of businesses also grow. For this situation,updates and developments for T1 technology have been discovered to still give solutions to the growing needs of businesses which T1 line can only give.

One of the many famous updates for T1 connection is its difference with DSL connection. For the first one, as most people do know, its speed rate is 1.544 MBPs which is 60 times faster compared with DSL. Aside from that, there is reliability assurance when it comes to using T1 line. The bandwidth is also not affected despite the downloading and uploading of large files for your businesses simultaneously. With DSL, there is no sure bandwidth speed. It changes depends on how heavy your business is.

Aside from that, only a single pipe is being used to carry the 24 channels of a full T1 type. This pipe can offer 1.544 Mbps speed rate for data transmission which means that every channel it carries has a speed rate transmission of 64 Kbps each. This is the reason why T1 line is famous for PBX business phone systems.

Moreover, there is an existing digital cross connect system for T1 lines. This system is used for switching traffic for T1 lines. This can be even used to integrate channels instead of reaching it to the whole circuit. For the manual device which connects T1 lines, it called as patch panel.

Further, you can lessen the money you have to pay for the fees of your T1 connection. You can basically do this if there are other businesses residing in your building or you can even avail of it in a business park.

Lastly, Channelized T1 and PRI can be used to handle two protocols in a switched circuit telephony. The first one can basically provide you with its 24 telephone lines when utilizing in-band signal. On the other hand, the latter can only give you 23 telephone lines and the remaining line is used as a channel signal which can give you the Caller ID of your calls.

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For those who used to spend hour for booking tickets and buying commodities, it has become just click of a mouse. Due to faster speed the online trading has gained popularity and been helpful to millions. Sending money via wired transfers has become a matter for few seconds. People do not spend much time these days standing in a cue to get things done in a bank.

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