"TOT was given an additional 90 days to create a new draft business plan and resubmit it to the committee for reconsideration," said Prawit Leesathapornwongsa, a commissioner of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC). The telecom committee of the NBTC rejected the state telecom enterprise's mobile business plan. In addition, the business plan might not benefit the public. Mr Prawit said TOT took almost one year to draft a four-page mobile business plan and it was not well-organised and failed to describe all aspects of the business. TOT wants to build network capacity to serve 100,000 subscribers in the first year of operation, increasing to 900,000 by the fifth year of operation, according to Mr Prawit's description of the draft business plan.

Source: Bangkok Post August 23, 2016 23:37 UTC