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Thai TOT is requested to complete next year the national 3G cover


news Beijing standard time on May 26 midday news (Jiang Junmu), although the Thai 3G modem frequency spectrum license plate auction not yet starts, Thai Country Telecommunication Committee (NTC) has requested the TOT public Limited company (TOT Public Company Limited) to accelerate the dilatancy its 3G network before August, 2011, will otherwise take back the 3G frequency spectrum.   According to the Thai media quotes National Telecommunication commission official Takorn Tantasit the words name, the National Telecommunication Committee has requested TOT not to this week wait for the auction, continues its second stage the 3G network dilatancy.   “TOT once on December 3 inquired whether the committee can implement its second stage the nationwide scale 3G network dilatancy, whether needs to wait for 2.1GHz in the frequency band the 3G frequency spectrum auction to be more explicit.”Takorn also expressed.   The National Telecommunication Committee informs TOT, the latter is awarded the 1.9MHz frequency spectrum to be very long, has the duty to provide the 3G service, but this duty has nothing to do with the 3G new frequency spectrum auction. TOT must realize the second stage 3800 base depot dilatancies before August, 2011, if the operator has not realized its dilatancy to pledge at the appointed time, will face punishments and so on fine, the most serious result cancels its 3G frequency spectrum license plate.   Thai premier Arab League threw over solid · Uygur the collection tile (Abhisit Vejjajiva) once to inform TOT to postpone the 3G dilatancy project earlier for the first time, until its could the clear localization be the network provider or the retail merchant.   According to C114 understood that the TOT public Limited company is the Thai biggest state-owned telecommunication operator, (Telephone Organization of Thailand) reorganized in 2002 by original TOT becomes.   In December, 2009, TOT has used the 1.9GHz frequency spectrum to clear the 3G commercial network officially, provides the service in capital Bangkok and the peripheral locality. The operator plans in this year invests 20,000,000,000 Thai bhats (the C114 note: Is approximately equal to 600,000,000 US dollars) to expand the network cover to the nation, but said that before the dilatancy will regard the 3G license plate auction to decide - - namely has not obtained the government “the advance” the signal, not to be indefinite whether dilatancy.   If the National Telecommunication Committee starts the 3G license plate auction, TOT can also not but consider and the Private enterprise competition potential impact. The other day was peaceful the royal court to authorize this committee 4 new committee member's appointments, paved the way for this year's 3G modem license plate auction. Before because of new committee member unresolved as well as the National Telecommunication Committee Government broadcasting Telecommunication Committee (NBTC) struggle of bureaucrat, causes 2.1GHz 3G the frequency spectrum auction infinite extension. At present Thailand leads the operator already in their existing GSM wireless frequency spectrum operation small scale 3G the experimental network.