NBTC secretary general Takorn Tantasith said yesterday that the drafting was expected to be finished in December and a public hearing on the draft was likely to be concluded in April next year.
It is the incoming NBTC that will consider the final draft and call for the bidding for both spectra, as the six-year term of the existing NBTC will end tomorrow. The new NBTC law empowers the existing watchdog to continue its duties until the new one takes office.