Plans firm to sell off AIS concessions to foreigners
The Information and Communications Technology Ministry is pushing ahead with plans to sell the mobile concessions of Advanced Info Service to a group of foreign telecom giants if compensation negotiations fail.
“We are in preliminary talks with eight international telecom firms and they all expressed interest in taking over the mobile operations of the country’s largest mobile operator,” said ICT Minister Juti Krairiksh yesterday.
The eight are Telecom Italia of Italy, China Mobile, NTT DoCoMo of Japan, SK Telecom of South Korea, Axiata of Malaysia, and three US operators.
