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Free Wi-Fi Internet Access

Free Wi-Fi Internet Access
Free Wi-Fi Internet Access

Free Wi-Fi Internet Access

I live in Northern Thailand; many of you know that already and I would like to tell you something about it, and hopefully shame my own country, if not yours. When you hear the word ‘Thailand’, what springs to mind? Buddhism and Buddhist Temples? Stunning landscapes, seascapes and beautiful beaches? Beautiful women? The omnipresent Thai smile? Sex, and erotic dancers? Paedophilia? Or free Wi-Fi Internet Access?

Certainly not free Wi-Fi Internet access, I’m sure, since Thailand is a Third World country, isn’t it?

Yes, it is in many ways, but if their military dictatorship government recognises the importance of giving the country’s citizens free Wi-Fi Internet access then, why aren’t we doing it?

When I first came to the village twelve years ago, I had to have my own satellite dish to receive the Internet. Then phone lines became available and TOT, Telephony of Thailand (?) Increased its speed to make it viable for serious use.

I jumped ship and that still costs me £12 p.m. No problem.

A few months ago, I was waiting for a bus at a terminus and was surprised to see emails streaming in. I asked someone and she said that the city gave free access to the Internet. I had never heard of that before anywhere in the world.

Anyway, in about October 2015, while sitting in our little village, I had the same experience, but outside a bus station :-).

The local authority, three miles away, has decided to open up their internet system to everyone. Tens of thousands of people now have free Wi-Fi Internet access saving them £12 a month each, and to put that into perspective, that is at least two days wages and could be four for a shop assistant.

So, if Thailand is Third World with a junta for a government, what does that say about our mob?

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by Owen

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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.

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