National Telecom (NT) has picked Advanced Info Service (AIS), the country's biggest mobile operator by subscriber base, as its 700-megahertz spectrum business partner, with an agreement expected to be signed in August, according to a source close to the state telecom enterprise's board.
The move is expected to help ease NT's concerns over how it can capitalise on its 700MHz spectrum range and prevent spending huge amounts to utilise the spectrum.
NT was founded on Jan 7 last year through the merger of state telecom enterprises CAT Telecom and TOT. NT holds 20MHz of bandwidth on the 700MHz spectrum range worth 34 billion baht via a 2020 auction won by CAT Telecom, but NT has yet to capitalise on the frequency.