As the digital TV auction heats up in Thailand, the four year network roll-out plans of National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), reveals that by the fourth year, the country will have 95% digital TV coverage.
The plans state that digital network providers must increase their coverage to 50% of the country’s 22 million households in the first year and then increase it to 80% in the second year, 90% in the third year and come up to 95% by the fourth. Currently NBTC is auctioning 24 license for commercial digital terrestrial TV, with the auction itself likely to take place at the end of this year.
NBTC has also announced that bidders who have qualified can directly deal with individual network providers before the auction begins and the qualifiers will be told about the rates 30 days prior to the auction. The state-run networks are most likely to announce their pricing plans for network leasing fees by mid-September.
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