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Published on April 1, 2008

According to a telecom industry source, the amount Digital Phone (DPC) has to pay amounts to four-fifths of the seven cycles of the fee payment, including interest at 9.5 per cent.

Four arbitration panels are involved in the case and the ruling yesterday was made by the second panel. The first panel has yet to make a ruling.

Advanced Info Service (AIS) president Wichian Mektrakarn said yesterday that AIS would take the case to the civil court.

He added that AIS had always honoured all its contracts but in the case between DTAC and DPC, the contract needed to be clarified. He also questioned the real cost DPC had to pay to DTAC.

DTAC entered into a domestic roaming agreement with DPC in 1996 when DPC was still owned by Samart Corp. The agreement involved DPC's roaming on DTAC's nationwide network and using a portion of its spectrum to provide cellular service.

Shin Corp, AIS's parent company, took over DPC in 2000. DPC stopped paying DTAC in 2002 until the contract ended in 2005.

Usanee Mongkolporn

The Nation