(Bangkok Post via NewsEdge) Thailand's Central Administrative Court ordered TOT to connect all 3 million new mobile telephone numbers allocated to the operators DTAC and True Move.
The decision followed a complaint by True Move that its new customers could not call 1111, the government data service center operated by the state telecom enterprise.
The court had earlier ordered TOT to connect the 1.5 million new numbers of DTAC on January 19, and the 1.5 million numbers of True Move on February 23.
Somkuan Bruminhent, the president and chief executive of TOT, said the True Move numbers would all be connected by tomorrow.
However, he said that TOT would go ahead with a suit against DTAC and True Move over access charges in a bid to protect the state's interest.
The two mobile operators stopped paying access charges to TOT in November, arguing that the new interconnection fee system introduced by the National Telecommunications Commission took precedence.
Somkuan said the two companies' complaints about new number connections were not related to the dispute over access charges or interconnection charges.
He said their intent was to put pressure on TOT's sister agency, CAT Telecom, to convert their concessions and amend the access charge agreement between TOT and CAT.
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