Board members of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) last week voted 4:3 to scrap the regulator's plan to develop the telehealth project valued at 3.8 billion baht on the grounds that the project is not in line with the objective of the NBTC's budget spending under its Universal Service Obligation (USO) project.
The majority of board members insist that the budget spending under the USO project framework focuses on supporting telecom network installation and expansion to bridge the digital divide, while the telehealth project investment focuses mainly on IT systems, particularly the cloud server system, according to a source on the NBTC's board.
