A new round in the legal dispute between TrueMove and Total Access Communication (DTAC) has erupted following TrueMove's filing of a complaint yesterday with the Crime Suppression Division against DTAC, alleging that its rival is a foreign-owned entity running a business in Thailand in circumvention of the Foreign Business Act.
The police said they would examine the details and decide whether there were grounds for prosecution.
Norway's Telenor and its local strategic partner DTAC both released statements countering the complaint, affirming that Telenor's ownership in DTAC complies with Thai laws and regulations.
A source at the Business Development Department of the Commerce Ministry, which is responsible for matters concerning the Foreign Business Act, said the department needed time to study details of the complaint. If it were to comment prematurely, it could backfire legally and/or affect related parties, it said.
A telecom industrialist said he hoped the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission would get off the ground soon to grant new spectrum licences and promote genuine and fair competition in the telecoms sector. This would enable the industry to move forward, instead of getting bogged down in legal cases such as this.
A telecom analyst said foreign stock investors might pay less attention to the legal cases than to which of the political parties will form the next government, and more importantly whether the new administration's telecom policy would benefit the whole industry or favour particular telecom operators.
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