Court dismisses review of auction
The Central Administrative Court on Monday dismissed a petition for a judicial review in the case of the auction of 2.1 gigahertz spectrum or 3G.
The Court said the Ombudsman who filed the petition was not the affected party. The petition was filed on November 8 asking the court to issue an injunction to suspend the National Broadcasting Telecommunications Commissions’ process of granting the 2.1GHz spectrum licenses to the three bid winners.
Takorn Tantasit, the NBTC secretary general, said earlier that if the court dismissed the case, the NBTC would proceed in granting the licences. He believed the three bid winners could finish the network rollout in major cities within six months of obtaining the licences.
The petition said the 2.1GHz spectrum auction lacked free and fair competition, as required by the Constitution and the 2010 Frequency Allocation Law. It also sought the court's injunction to suspend the 2.1GHz spectrum licensing. The court has already heard the parties involved in the case over the past few weeks.
