could also pose further risks to consumers and businesses through price volatility, cybertheft, personal data leakage, or money laundering, etc.Recognizing such risks and implications, regulators will
between postpaid and prepaid from 17% vs 83% in 2Q17 to 19% vs 81% in 2Q18. Following the larger postpaid base, blended ARPU continued to increase by 0.3% QoQ, supported by higher data consumption on 4G
year while demand for mobile data nearly doubled YoY to 6.7GB/data sub/month from video streaming and increased 4G handset penetration (46%). To compete for quality subscribers who bring growth in data
-emerged and further strained tension on economy. Competition around data pricing with unlimited plan remained high and barred monetizing rise in data demand as well as stabilizing ARPU. However, mobile
1 2Q19 MD&A Advanced Info Service Plc. Executive Summary Competition in mobile saw an improvement In 2Q19 the price competition in mobile industry had improved with fixed speed unlimited data pricing
by 3.2%, higher than 2.9% growth in 2015, according to data from Bank of Thailand and NESDB. This was mainly from acceleration of government expenditure and the recovery in both of farm income and
continued offering low-end unlimited data plans in both prepaid and postpaid segments in order to maintain customer base and expand market share. Hence, mobile revenue slightly declined by 0.7% YoY to
plans to suit customer’s usage pattern. Prepaid competition, however, remained challenging with offering of large data allowance on low-tier package during the quarter to date. AIS selectively offered
facilitated by government subsidizations. This was further supported by a continuous increase in foreign arrivals despite some structural headwinds and rising geopolitical conflicts. In summary, AIS reported