With the re-installation of Anand, the business outlook brightened, and it was believed that most of the major mass transit projects were on track. The telephone contracts, however, were another matter. In his first administration Anand had inherited a telephone contract agreed to but not signed by the Chatichai government-that awarded a three-million-telephone contract to the giant Charoen Pokphand (CP) group. He ordered a review which revealed that some bidders were arbitrarily disqualified, and that the acceptance of the CP bid was not based on the principle of maximising the benefits to TOT. Eventually, a compromise was reached whereby the contract was split in two, with CP to install two million telephones in Bangkok, and the one million non-metropolitan telephones to be contracted separately, with CP not permitted to be a bidder either in its right or in partnership.