Thai Move to 4G Mobile May Lure Overseas Bidders: Southeast Asia
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Thailand needs to make more bandwidth available to lure overseas bidders when it auctions licenses to run fourth-generation mobile-phone networks in 2014, the head of the country’s second-biggest operator said.
The regulator could include unused frequency bands that are scheduled to be returned to a state-owned utility in 2018 to make the contest more attractive, said Jon Eddy Abdullah, chief executive officer of Total Access Telecommunications Pcl, which is 43 percent owned by Telenor ASA and controls the spectrum.