Bangkok Post | January 24, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana
TOT Plc may have to postpone its planned auction for its nationwide third-generation (3G) wireless broadband expansion in the wake of allegations by some bidders of unfair treatment and poor transparency.
Chuti Krairiksh, the Information and Communications Technology minister, admitted he could not guarantee that the auction for the project worth almost 20 billion baht could take place on Friday as scheduled.
Ericsson of Sweden and ZTE Corporation of China last week accused the state telecom enterprise of being non-transparent, after TOT announced that the two contenders had been tentatively ruled out after preliminary screening.
Ericsson was supposedly disqualified for the absence of catalogues for antenna-related products in its submitted bid. ZTE was said to have provided unrealistic financial calculations.
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