BANGKOK, 29 January 2013 Mobile telephone service providers will be forced to pay the Legal Execution Department retroactive fines they owe to the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC).
According to NBTC secretary Thakorn Tantasit, the NBTC will ask the Legal Execution Department to force 3 mobile service providers, DTAC, AIS, and CAT TELECOM, to pay the fines they owe for not complying with the prepaid-mobile regulations
He said the 3 providers will be fined up to 71.6 million baht altogether for breaking the validity period regulation forbidding setting an expiration date on the prepaid-phone numbers. In the case of failure to register new users of prepaid SIM cards, 4 providers including AIS, DTAC, TOT, and CAT Telecom will be fined 15.6 million baht each for the violation. Therefore, the total fine for not complying with the rules amounts to 134 million baht.
Concerning the regulations on voice-call rates, the secretary said the NBTC is still waiting for answers from DTAC and AIS in relation to what measures they will take regarding the combined 99 satang per minute promotional call packages. However, the 2 providers have confirmed that they have already complied with the rules.
