NBTC set to announce revised spectrum management timetable 

The NBTC tabled the revised time frame at a public hearing yesterday.
According to the revised timetable, the NBTC will have to finish the licensing regulations for the 1,427-1,518-megahertz band for wireless broadband service by 2023, deputy secretary-general Thanapant Raichareon said yesterday.
It will have to finish the regulations for the 2,300-2,400MHz band by 2020 and for the 2,500-2,690MHz band by 2022, both changes from the original schedule of 2018.
While the revised timetable is to be put in place in March, its effect will be backdated to January 1.
The NBTC also has to revise the spectrum master plan to manage the telecommunications and broadcasting industries. However, it had to suspend the revision pending the complete development of the new NBTC law, which is on second reading by the National Legislative Assembly.
The new law focuses on the return of spectra to the NBTC by the state agencies and how to compensate them after they let go their spectra. 
TOT currently holds the 1,500MHz band and 60MHz of the 2.3GHz spectrum. It has proposed a revised business plan for the 2.3GHz service for the NBTC telecom committee’s consideration.
MCOT holds the 2.6GHz band. The NBTC is waiting for the new legislation to allow it to reclaim this band from MCOT and compensate that agency. 
Thanapant said that the new NBTC law would draw up the spectrum auction regulations. 
A telecom analyst believes that as the current NBTC’s term ended in October, he did not expect a new spectrum auction to take place until 2018 at the earliest. Thanapant added that the NBTC was considering allocating 920-925MHz bandwidth for Internet of Things services.