TOT has celebrated the appointment of its new CEO with a massive internet outage that cut off people in 19 of Thailand’s 76 provinces.
The outage was first discovered at 2:40am on February 15, and TOT engineers began resetting routers from 9am until the problem was fixed at 3pm.
All of this happened less than a day after Yongyuth Watanasin was appointed CEO. Yongyuth took the helm on February 14, following a year where the position of head of the state-owned telco was vacant.
As of Friday, Yongyuth still did not have a reason for the outage, only telling reporters that he did not think the massive outage was a welcoming party thrown for him by disgruntled employees.
At the same time, regulator NBTC's secretary-general Takon Tantasit said that the outage was due to one of TOT’s three internet circuits going down. Takon said that TOT engineers told him that full coverage had been restored by 6pm at a reduced speed.