Kenneth Chai, the owner of TOT Cat Café, said that he and Exner had "different standards" for cat care. "They constantly forget to feed them, or give them water, or properly monitor their health," she said. She accused the café owners of not being interested in caring for the animals that are the basis of their business. "This job has been the most stressful job in my entire life," she wrote in a public Facebook post. She quit earlier this month saying she couldn't keep up with the around-the-clock care the cats needed. There are currently 255 cat cafés in 37 countries and 143 cities, according to Coffee With Cats, a website that tracks cat cafés.īut a recent controversy in Toronto's only cat café, the TOT Café on College Street, has highlighted how difficult it is to run a business with felines.Ĭat cafés in Canada offer lattes and furry felinesīrandy Exner, a former employee of TOT Cat Café in downtown Toronto, said she found herself coming into the café even on her days off to feed the cats. Learn how your comment data is processed.Having a coffee with a cat close by was once a privilege only cat-owners could enjoy.īut today, cat cafés are offering that opportunity to all: order a hot beverage and enjoy it in the midst of adoptable cats in a cafe setting.
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However, Pansak said that the project’s budget had been reassigned – instead of investing in new fiber, CAT will upgrade its existing network, citing difficulty in G2G negotiations in laying new fiber networks. This would not only drastically lower Thailand’s Internet costs but would give many carriers in the region a new route for fault tolerance.Įarlier, the ministry had allocated $142 million (5 billion baht) for CAT telecom to invest in new fiber optic cables in order to make Thailand a regional hub and compete with Singapore. He said that the DE was working on expanding the proposed China-Thailand power grid to include fiber as well, and is pushing for a new fiber link that would connect Sriracha and Hong Kong.
Pansak said that the project to create a hub in the eastern province of Sriracha – Digital Park Thailand – was still on track and promised international fiber links so that Thai online businesses could compete with their counterparts in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. The backhaul networks of CAT, TOT and the new Pracharat national broadband network will be open for sharing from July 1 onwards to ensure the lowest price.
Pichet said the DE remains committed to its “Pracharat” (“people and state”) national broadband project that will see 95% of the population gain access to 30-Mbps broadband that costs less than 2% of GNI per capita.ĭE vice-minister Pansak Sirirutchatapong said the DE will ensure that CAT and TOT do not invest in overlapping areas and will work with the telecoms regulator NBTC to enable infrastructure sharing. The State Enterprise Policy Board had earlier identified the pooling of state telco assets as a priority for the optimal use of the assets. The DE said it will not make any further policy-level commitments. The future of the NBN project will now be in the hands of CAT and TOT, who will have to come up with a business case for it on their own. Thailand’s Digital Economy Minister Pichet Durongkaveroj has pulled the plug on his predecessor’s high-priority infrastructure fund that was to see $420 million (15 billion baht) of taxpayer money invested into NBN Co, a 50-50 joint venture between state telcos CAT Telecom and TOT Corporation set up to manage the pooled infrastructure.īefore the rebranding of the ICT Ministry into the Digital Economy and Society Ministry, the infrastructure fund was a high-priority project that was to be set up this fiscal year.
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