Both agreed to a termination rate of Bt1 per minute. AIS will charge a transit rate of Bt1 per minute if True Move routes its calls via the AIS network, while True Move will charge 20 satang when vice versa.

The interconnection regulations of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) require all telecom firms to share voice and data revenues between any two networks involved in a call on a fair basis.

The NTC's interconnection-charge regime covers origination, transit and termination charges.

The termination charge is what a service provider pays to another provider for receiving its call, while the transit charge is what a provider pays to an intermediate network for passing its call on to the receiver.

The origination charge is what the service provider that receives a call pays to the network from where the call originated. The charge is for CAT, which must share its revenues from international calls with the operator that transfers the calls from its subscribers to CAT.

AIS and True Move have also agreed to enable the sending of multimedia messages between their networks.

True Move will pay 25 satang to AIS per short message and 35 satang per multimedia message, plus Bt0.01 per kilobyte of multimedia message. AIS will pay True Move 37 satang per short message and Bt0.01 per kilobyte of multimedia message.

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