Bangkok Post | January 28, 2011
Samart Corporation won today’s TOT Plc auction for a 20-billion-baht 3G (third generation) wireless broadband network expansion.
The e-auction was held on Friday morning after the Administrative Court last night rejected Ericsson’s petition to halt the bidding.
The reserve bid price was set at 17.440 billion baht. There were 17 bids.
The SL consortium of Samart, Loxley, Nokia Siemens Networks and Huawei Technologies won the auction with a minimum bid of 16.29 billion baht, which was 6.59 per cent less than the reserve price. The contract is scheduled to be signed next month.
The AU consortium of Advanced Information Technology and United Communications submitted a bid of 16.77 billion baht.
True Move, the country’s third-largest mobile phone operator, and state-owned CAT Telecom yesterday signed a deal to develop a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) network into a High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) network.
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