NTC issues ultimatum on Thailand’s mobile number portability service

BANGKOK, 30 August 2010 (NNT) – The National Telecommunication Commission (NTC) issues an ultimatum to local mobile service operators warning them to enable the number portability service as scheduled, or else they will face a 20,000 THB fine per day.

An NTC Commissioner, Suranan Wongvithayakamjorn, said the 5 mobile service operators including AIS, DTAC, TrueMove, TOT and CAT Telecom, must officially launch the mobile number portability (MNP) on 31 August as planned. He reasoned that the NTC had extended the deadline for one year after the MNP criteria were announced in the royal gazette, to allow the operators to setup the system.

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