No companies have submitted a bid document for the auction of licenses to use the two unsold orbital slot packages at 50.5° East and 142° East.
An anonymous source at the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) suggested that the NBTC may need to reconsider its next steps.
The deadline for bid submissions was July 23.
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Under the original auction conditions, if only one company had submitted a bid envelope, the regulator would have extended the timeline by a month to allow more companies to purchase bid envelopes, moving the auction date from August 24 to September 21.
If no company submitted a bid envelope, the regulator would’ve extended the auction timeline further to provide additional time for companies to acquire the envelopes.
According to the initial timeline, companies could buy bid envelopes from June 4 to June 25, with bid submissions due by July 23. The regulator plans to reveal potential bidders on August 13, and a mock auction is scheduled for August 21, or three days before the main auction.
So far, only two companies, TC Space, a Thaicom subsidiary, and Prompt Technology, have collected bid envelopes.
The two slot packages remain unsold from the previous 2023 auction for satellite orbit licenses.
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