NACC and OAG asked to probe NBTC for failing to enforce per-second airtime charge

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Independent Committee for Consumers’ Protection will ask the National Anti-Corruption Commission and the Office of the Auditor-General to investigate the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission for its failure to enforce mobile phone airtime charge on per-second basis.

 

Assistant Professor Ruj Komonboot, chairman of the media and telecom subcommittee of the ICCP, said that the government had resolved two years ago that mobile phone service providers must charge airtime fees on per-second basis instead of per-minute basis as practiced by the service providers, but the resolution has never been implemented by the NBTC.

 

Although mobile phone operators had been summoned to be informed of the new airtime charge format by the NBTC, he said that the per-second airtime charge had never been enforced.

 

“When we shopped in the department store, we complained when we found out that we were cheated or overcharged by the sellers. When we drive into a petrol station to have our cars filled up, we pay for the actual amount of fuel filled such as 15.7 litres and no petrol stations anywhere that will charge us for 16 litres of petrol,” the professor cited.

 

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What pisses me of is all the spam SMS the mobile phone service providers send me. I am blocking all their spam now.

NBTC has to be True to their calling...