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Published on April 5, 2008

Director Ratian Srimogkol said the board would convene on Thursday to appoint a new acting president and intended to finish the process of selecting a new chief within three months.

TOT has operated without a president for many months, while it has been plagued by various problems and disputes including the access-charge dispute with Total Access Communication and True Move.

DTAC and True Move stopped paying access charges in November 2006 and have instead adopted the interconnection-charge system of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC).

TOT had collected combined access charges of Bt14 billion per year from DTAC, True Move and Digital Phone Co as the cost of connecting their various networks through TOT facilities. The three cellular operators operate under concessions of CAT Telecom.

The NTC interconnection regulations mandate the networks of the callers pay an interconnection fee to the networks of the call receivers, aiming to prevent the former dumping traffic on the networks of the latter. Late last year TOT filed a civil lawsuit claiming Bt14 billion in overdue access charges from DTAC and True Move.

The Nation