Currently, the rule is that the average tariffs of all of a telecom’s packages should be 69 and 26 satang for voice and data respectively.

NBTC secretary-general Takorn Tantasith made the remark yesterday at a seminar hosted by the Information Technology Press Club on the lessons from the auctions of licences for fourth-generation wireless service.

Currently the average price of all combined packages of each of operators feature maximum voice fee at Bt0.69 per minute and data fee of Bt0.26 per megabytes.

Takorn also said Advanced Info Service subsidiary Advanced Wireless Network (AWN) would definitely take part in the auction for a licence on the 900-megahertz spectrum on May 27.

He said AIS had told him informally that its board had approved the plan to join the auction.

He said True Corp had still not made a final decision on taking part in the auction as its board had yet to meet on the matter.

So far only AWN and True Move H Universal Communication have picked up the documents for applying to participate in the auction. The bid invitation period runs from April 12 to May 17.

Total Access Communication (DTAC) recently announced that it would not take part.

The 900MHz licence up for grabs was forfeited by Jasmine International subsidiary Jas Mobile Broadband after winning it at an auction last December. The bidding starts at Bt75.654 billion, the final amount bid by Jas Mobile to win this band in December.

Qualified bidders will have to place a guarantee of Bt3.783 billion on May 18.