BANGKOK: -- The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) earned 28,844,999 baht from an auction of 32 “beautiful” mobile phone numbers on Sunday.
Altogether 168 “beautiful” phone numbers were put on public auction – the second this year – but only 32 numbers were auctioned off. The number which fetched the highest bidding price was 095-999-999 at 4.8 million baht followed by 095-666-6666 and 096-000-0000 which fetched three million baht each.
The phone numbers with six digits of the same number were auctioned off at a starting price of 500,000 baht with number 092-899-9999 fetching the highest bid at 1,004,999 baht.
