Thailand's military Junta has ordered regulator NBTC to redraw the nation's Frequency Allocation Act.
The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has instructed NBTC to overhaul the act and devise a way to optimize spectrum use, the Bangkok Post reported.
According to the report, the move is aimed at allowing state-owned operators TOT and CAT to regain the revenue that they had lost under the move from a concession licensing scheme to a more standard auction model.
With Thailand's private operators' long spectrum-use concession agreements with TOT and CAT expiring, the NBTC had planned to allocate the 1800-MHz and 900-MHz to be freed up at auction during three 4G auctions over the next two years. The first of these was tentatively scheduled for August.
But TOT and CAT have insisted that the concession deals allow them to keep spectrum for their own use for another two years after they expire.
The NCPO wants all parties involved to agree on a joint resolution before the 4G auctions can proceed.
Private operator Dtac is meanwhile facing exclusion from the auctions due to its decision to expose the NCPO's secret order to briefly block Facebook access days after the coup d'etat.