TOT, CAT present post-BTO business plans

State-owned TOT and CAT Telecom have presented their business plans for continuing operations after the expiry of the revenue-sharing build-transfer-operate (BTO) concessions which were issued by the twin telcos to private sector operators. Thailand’s Finance Ministry, through which the state holds its shares in the telcos, required the pair to finalise business plans urgently as although the BTO concessions expire at various dates beginning in 2013, under law both TOT and CAT must transfer all BTO concession revenue to the government from December 2013 onwards.*TOT’s largest BTO revenue earner is the 2G mobile network operating concession held by cellular market leader Advanced Info Service (AIS), which ends in 2015. TOT is seeking ways to hold on to the 900MHz spectrum that it has granted to AIS under the BTO concession, although as it stands, under the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) spectrum management master plan, both TOT and CAT must hand back any spectrum to the regulator for reallocation at the end of a concession period

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