TELECOMMUNICATIONS
NBTC threatened with lawsuit
- Published: 14 Feb 2013 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: Business
TOT's labour union is threatening a lawsuit against the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) over the watchdog's planned capacity expansion of mobile number portability.
The move is aimed at protesting the watchdog's plan to increase the capacity for number transfers of existing operators to 300,000 a day from 40,000 now, thereby helping mobile operators whose concessions will expire in September.
"This measure will result in huge damage to both TOT and CAT Telecom in the form of a heavy loss of concession revenue, as operators will be able to migrate their existing 2G customers to the new international standard third-generation (3G) 2.1-megahertz network too quickly," said Narapol Plainet, a former leader of TOT's labour union.
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