Fierce competition may boost price of Thailand’s 3G licences

Thailand’s three major mobile operators will compete for two licenses in auction that starts next week. Excessive competition for Thailand’s third-generation mobile phone licenses will likely drive up fees for carriers and pressure earnings of the country’s major telecom operators in the near term. Units of Advanced Info Service PCL, Total Access Communication PCL and […]

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Thailand’s three major telcos enter 3G licence auction

Car importer Win Win fails to gain approval for spectrum contest on lack of deposit. Thailand’s three major telecommunication companies have, via their units, been given initial approval to take part in the auction for licenses for third generation services, the National Telecommunication Commission, or NTC, said Tuesday. Advanced Wireless Network, a unit of Advanced […]

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NTC issues ultimatum on Thailand’s mobile number portability service

BANGKOK, 30 August 2010 (NNT) – The National Telecommunication Commission (NTC) issues an ultimatum to local mobile service operators warning them to enable the number portability service as scheduled, or else they will face a 20,000 THB fine per day. An NTC Commissioner, Suranan Wongvithayakamjorn, said the 5 mobile service operators including AIS, DTAC, TrueMove, […]

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