Growth in Thailand's mobile market has slowed from more than 100% a year in 2002 to 11% last year, with Nomura, a Japanese investment bank, forecasting future expansion of only 5% a year.
Starting with a pager service, Thaksin went on to pioneer mobile phone networks in Thailand and moved on to launch the country's first telecoms satellites.
Once upon a time (2007) in a land far, far away (Thailand) lived the i-mobile 902, a pseudo Sony Ericsson W800 clone featuring a trick five-megapixel autofocus camera with a Sony-made CCD sensor and xenon flash.