CAT may sue NBTC
USANEE MONGKOLPORN
THE NATION September 28, 2015 1:00 am
CAT TELECOM'S board will today consider taking further legal action against the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Com-|mission over its plan to auction 1800MHz spectrum licences.
Colonel Sanphachai Huvanandana, CAT's acting chief executive officer, said that the move was not primarily aimed at stopping the auction but to remind the NBTC and all potential licence bidders that there was a legal challenge to the auction. CAT has to protect its right over the spectrum, he said.
Last year,
CAT filed a lawsuit at the Central Administrative Court against the auction plan,
claiming that it held the rights to the 1800MHz spectrum licences until 2018.
CAT granted 1800MHz concessions to TrueMove and Digital Phone Co and the concessions expired in September 2013. The licensing body has reclaimed its 1800MHz bands for the November 11 auction.
Seven companies have already picked up bid documents for the two licences. They are Advanced Wireless Network, DTAC TriNet, DTAC Broadband, TrueMove H Universal Communication, Hutchison Telecommunications (Thailand), RealMove, and Jas Mobile Broadband.
Meanwhile, CAT is considering lodging an appeal with the NBTC over its telecom committee ruling last week that CAT should get only Bt742,000 in transmission network rental fees during the first stage of the remedy period undertaken by TrueMove and DPC.
CAT has demanded a fee of Bt23.379 billion from both TrueMove and DPC.
"We've asked for the nationwide network rental fee, so it's impossible that the fee will be Bt742,000 only," Sanphachai said. "We once discussed with TrueMove that the rental fee it has to pay to CAT is Bt720 million but the talks have yet to be concluded."
The telecom committee's figure is calculated based on a 10-month network-leasing period from September 16, 2013, until July 17, 2014. CAT's demand for the fee covers the period from September 16, 2013, to September 15, 2014.
After the concessions expired, the NBTC permitted TrueMove and DPC to continue migrating customers - those who had failed to move to other networks - for a year during the so-called first phase of the remedy period.
If they generated revenue during that period, the rules state that they had to pass it on, after deducting expenses, to the state.
They used CAT's cellular transmission network to serve their |customers during the remedy |period.
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/CAT-may-sue-NBTC-30269656.html 
CAT เล็งฟ้อง กสทช. ย้ำ 1800 MHz ยังเป็นของ CAT จนถึงปี 2018 เอามาประมูลไม่ได้
USANEE MONGKOLPORN
THE NATION September 28, 2015 1:00 am
CAT TELECOM'S board will today consider taking further legal action against the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Com-|mission over its plan to auction 1800MHz spectrum licences.
Colonel Sanphachai Huvanandana, CAT's acting chief executive officer, said that the move was not primarily aimed at stopping the auction but to remind the NBTC and all potential licence bidders that there was a legal challenge to the auction. CAT has to protect its right over the spectrum, he said.
Last year, CAT filed a lawsuit at the Central Administrative Court against the auction plan, claiming that it held the rights to the 1800MHz spectrum licences until 2018.
CAT granted 1800MHz concessions to TrueMove and Digital Phone Co and the concessions expired in September 2013. The licensing body has reclaimed its 1800MHz bands for the November 11 auction.
Seven companies have already picked up bid documents for the two licences. They are Advanced Wireless Network, DTAC TriNet, DTAC Broadband, TrueMove H Universal Communication, Hutchison Telecommunications (Thailand), RealMove, and Jas Mobile Broadband.
Meanwhile, CAT is considering lodging an appeal with the NBTC over its telecom committee ruling last week that CAT should get only Bt742,000 in transmission network rental fees during the first stage of the remedy period undertaken by TrueMove and DPC.
CAT has demanded a fee of Bt23.379 billion from both TrueMove and DPC.
"We've asked for the nationwide network rental fee, so it's impossible that the fee will be Bt742,000 only," Sanphachai said. "We once discussed with TrueMove that the rental fee it has to pay to CAT is Bt720 million but the talks have yet to be concluded."
The telecom committee's figure is calculated based on a 10-month network-leasing period from September 16, 2013, until July 17, 2014. CAT's demand for the fee covers the period from September 16, 2013, to September 15, 2014.
After the concessions expired, the NBTC permitted TrueMove and DPC to continue migrating customers - those who had failed to move to other networks - for a year during the so-called first phase of the remedy period.
If they generated revenue during that period, the rules state that they had to pass it on, after deducting expenses, to the state.
They used CAT's cellular transmission network to serve their |customers during the remedy |period.
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/CAT-may-sue-NBTC-30269656.html