addition, the economic slowdown in 2019 created a price war competition in this industry. For this quarter, the outbreak of COVID-19 since middle of March 2020 caused a direct impact toward customers

demand in the market. Excess production in China caused extra problems as the local production could not be shipped out due to pandemic, resulting into an intense competition and price in China. For

year. This is due to the lower sales than in the same quarter of the previous year, affected by the higher intensive competition in stainless steel pipes aluminum and copper in the market and resulting

2- and 3-Carrier Aggregation (CA) technology. During the quarter, the competition focused on acquiring/maintaining quality customers in postpaid segment through handset campaigns and pricing strategy

4G network and value-for-money price plans continued to be localized in some key cities. On fixed broadband, competition remained intense in pricing and acquisition whereby the incumbents continued to

the year. Foreign purchasing power was greatly contracted by the impact of trade war affecting the sales volume while the falling price of raw materials in global market and intensive competition among

Competition 1.1 Electricity industry and Economic situation in Thailand In 2018, Thailand’s peak demand in Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT)’s system was 28,338 megawatts, occurred on April 24

front, the lower employment rate and high household debt causing most of the financial institutions to offload their NPLs and NPAs for asset management companies (AMCs) to manage further. The competition

notable improvement of the performance in terms of revenue and cost-saving compared to last quarter. However, Overall performance on a year-over-year basis was affected by the change in structure of revenue

into year-end due to continued strength at our customers taking into account the normal seasonal effects” 2. Outlook Marco environment experienced some notable headwinds particularly in the tourism