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Thailand’s telecoms regulator gave the green light to a proposed merger of True Corp and dtac nearly a year after the tie-up was first mooted, but added a number of conditions to the controversial deal aimed at protecting consumers.

Thailand’s telecoms regulator pushed back a long-awaited decision on a proposed merger of True Corp and dtac after concluding details provided by the companies was not sufficient to design measures to protect consumers, The Nation reported.

Scrutiny of a proposed merger of True Corp and dtac continued to mount, as a member of the board of Thailand’s telecoms regulator made an unsuccessful challenge to its authority to approve the deal, Bangkok Post reported.

A planned merger of True Corp and dtac ran into an unexpected obstacle, with the supervisory committee of the regulator urging the body to block the tie-up, which would create an operator controlling more than half of the country’s mobile…

Thailand’s telecoms regulator was asked to consider giving mobile operators additional time to pay for 5G licences along with other potential relief, to account for a hit to their finances caused by Covid-19 (coronavirus), Bangkok Post reported.

True Move, the second-largest operator in Thailand, announced it doesn’t plan to participate in a 700MHz spectrum auction scheduled to take place later in the year.

Thailand once again delayed a planned spectrum auction, pushing the sale scheduled for February to the third quarter of 2019 as the 700MHz band, used by broadcasters, won’t be freed up until 2020.