declined 615,200. The data consumption continued to accelerate with blended VOU rising to 4GB/data sub/month driven by 4G. HD video streaming has become popular while data plans were designed to be worry
both pricing environment and handset campaigns despite lessen from previous year. Market was driven by postpaid acquisition via handset bundling package causing steady rise in blended ARPU throughout the
rate since 1Q17. Similar to postpaid, data consumption among prepaid strongly grew to 7GB/month, compared to 3.5GB in 1Q17, with ARPU gradually improving to Bt184 or +0.5% QoQ. On a blended basis, ARPU
subsidies. Nevertheless, prepaid subscribers also continued to consume more data with VOU rising to 5.4GB, up from 4.1GB in 2Q17. As a result, total subscribers stood at 40.2mn with blended ARPU of Bt254
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
, -2.7% QoQ to Bt251 on a blended basis, coupled with the strong growth in VoU, +13% QoQ to 10GB per subscriber per month. Postpaid segment continued to grow strongly, adding 192k QoQ driven by promotional
tourist SIM, while prepaid ARPU declined -3.9%QoQ to Bt156 following low price unlimited data plan as well as the effect of the NBTC’s campaigns causing lower top-up. Overall, blended ARPU declined to Bt239
decrease in prepaid customers resulted from subscribers moving into postpaid. Blended ARPU increased 3.6% YoY with improved pricing; and remained flat QoQ. The subscribers for FBB business grew 38% YoY, and
-5,500 44,700 552,300 522,200 ARPU (Baht/sub/month) Postpaid 581 578 574 5621) 571 Prepaid 183 184 183 1781) 176 Blended 256 257 258 2531) 254 MOU (minute/sub/month) Postpaid 257 251 242 241 244 Prepaid