Thailand’s current spectrum auction is drawing poor demand from the country’s two main operators True Corporation and Advanced Info Service (AIS). This comes amid other examples of lackluster demand in Asia, where regulators risk slowing 5G network growth by making spectrum too expensive. Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) plans to auction four spectrum bands at the end of June: 850 MHz, 1,500 MHz, 2,100 MHz, and 2,300 MHz. But the country’s two main operators will be targeting only the 2,100 MHz and 2,300 MHz bands, and although 17.6% of the country’s 5G network uses low-band spectrum, there were no bids submitted for the sub-GHz frequencies. As of mid-2024, Thai operators solely relied on bands below 3 GHz for…