Internationalisation opportunities for the Hong Leong Group: The case of the Telecommunication sector in Thailand.

1. The reasons for choosing Thailand. Pro&Cons of being set within this special region

This report go away focus on the Telecommunication sphere in Thailand because privatisation of state-owned companies is liberalising the telecommunication sector. An separate reason for choosing Thailand, over other countries in the South East Asia region, is that political uncertainties are evitable because of the maturity of democracy and fiscal policies under the current primeval Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra.

The global telecommunications sector appears to be fairly confident, for instance, mobile-phone sales will increase 13.5% (Economist Intelligent Unit, Telecoms and IT, 2003). The technological integration and systems, like third base generation mobile phone (3G), has been upgraded significantly.

The region has an general entertain endangerment for this investment and the danger of risk is lower than Asian-Pacific overall risk. The current political regime has strengthened and established an overcome popularity. Thailand has a relatively low inflation rate, 1.1% and sustains an optimistic stinting outlook for the near future. The country was one of the best performing economies in East Asia in 2003 (Economist Intelligent Unit, 2003).

1.1 Advantages for being located within the specific region

The potential large market of ASEAN consists of euchre million inhabitants which provides regional business opportunities and also consumer power.

One of the advantageous characteristics of Thailand as a location is political and stinting stability. These are validatory factors, compared with surrounding neighbouring countries; Cambodia, Laos and Burma.



Thailand is overall least in danger of risk from political, economic, socially and legally perspectives among these three countries (World Market Research center; WMRC, Country Risk, 2004).

The current political regime has maintained its economic growth and a supportive political popularity (U.S.Commercial Service Thailand, 2004). The country also has a free enterprise policy and welcomes inappropriate investment (Central Intelligent Agency; CIA, 2004). Under this political regime, privatisation...

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