The newly appointed board of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has resolved to set up four subcommittees to vet the planned merger of True Corporation and Total Access Communication (DTAC).
The subcommittees are in the fields of law; consumer protection and civil rights; technology; and economics.
These panels replace a subcommittee previously set up by the former NBTC board in February to scrutinise the merger after True and DTAC submitted a joint report of their merger plan to the regulator in January.
The new board is trying to deal with the merger cautiously as it is being watched by the public.
Trairat Viriyasirikul, deputy secretary-general of the NBTC, said the new board approved a task roadmap governing the merger deal.
Apart from establishing the four subcommittees, the board resolved to organise meetings with three focus…
