TT&T signs Bt43m interconnection billing deal
Fixed-line operator TT&T Plc signed a Bt43-million deal April 28 to use Jasmine Telecom Systems Plc's interconnection billing system when the interconnection charge scheme is implemented.
The system, which will record interconnection call traffic through the company's network, will enable TT&T to settle interconnection bills with the other telecom operators. The interconnection charge requires telecom operators to share voice revenues proportionately between the two networks being traversed by a call. Choochart Promphrasid, chairman of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), said yesterday that the NTC was expected to publish the interconnection charge regulations in the Royal Gazette soon. The NTC has ordered TOT Plc and CAT Telecom Plc to work out the interconnection rates but they have yet to do so. According to TT&T's filing with the Stock Exchange of Thailand yesterday, Jasmine Telecom will supply and install the system for TT&T at nine points of interconnection nationwide within 60 days after the agreement signing date. TT&T and Jasmine Telecom are majority owned by Jasmine International Plc. TT&T's vice president for finance, Prasitchai Kritsanayunyong, said that TOT, which owns TT&T's concession, would pay the interconnection charge for TT&T out of the concession fee it paid to TOT.
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