NBTC mulls new hearing on satellite draft
Move follows revision of critical details
The management of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) plans to ask its board this week to consider allowing another public hearing on the auction draft for the right to use satellite orbital slots, following amendment of several critical details, says Air Marshal Thanapant Raicharoen, deputy secretary-general of the NBTC.
NBTC management expects the auction will be held before Thaicom’s satellite-operating concession contract expires in September this year to propel the space economy in Thailand through the use of orbital slots.
He said the proposed new public hearing is slated for April and lasts 15 days.
AM Thanapant, who is also the head of a panel preparing the auction draft, said the amended…
