Thai broadcasting went digital under Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial (DVB-T) for the first time in 2001. While DVB-T functioned well at that time, there has not been any policy support to this new technology until 2010 with the promulgation of the Act on Organization to Assign Radio Frequency and to Regulate the Broadcasting and Telecom- munications Services B.E. 2553 (2010). The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), the sole regulator of Thailand’s telecommunications and broadcasting sector came up with the “digital roadmap” in 2012. The roadmap set the policy for the
allocation of broadcasting licenses, timeframe for switching off analogue TV, and technical issues in broadcasting.