TRUEMOVE AND Digital Phone Co will have to pay Bt10.58 billion to the government for the second phase of their remedy period, according to the regulator's working group on the remedy period.
After their concessions ended in September 2013, the National Broadcasting and Tel ecommun icat ions Commission allowed them to continue migrating their customers to other networks for a remedy period of a year and pass any net profit to the state.
The NBTC working group determined that during the second phase of this period, TrueMove logged revenue of Bt13.62 billion and operating expenses of Bt3.35 billion during the period, while DPC made revenue of Bt749 million and operating expenses of Bt448 million.
They will have to transfer the difference to the state, amounting to Bt10.28 billion for TrueMove and Bt301 million for DPC.
Then TrueMove and DPC will have to pay rent to CAT Telecom for using its transmission network during the period, amounting to Bt689,412 and Bt135,373 respectively. This means TrueMove and DPC will have to forward a combined Bt10.58 billion to state coffers.
The first phase of the remedy period ran from September 16,2013, to July 17, 2014, and the second phase from July 18, 2014, to July 17 this year.
NBTC member P rasert Silpiphat said yesterday that the telecom committee on Tuesday had still not considered what TrueMove and DPC would have to pay for the second phase since it wanted to clear up the dispute between the companies and the NBTC over the amount they were required to pay for the first phase