from 2.3% in the second quarter of 2019, mainly driven by expansion of private consumption, government spending and tourism sector. Meanwhile, exports sector continued to contract caused by uncertainty
quarter. However, the Thai economy is expected to grow continually from last year, thanks to the expansion of exports and tourism sectors as well as an increase in government consumption. In addition, the
the previous year due to continue an increase of export and private consumption, as well as an expansion of private investment. In addition, there were supporting factors from domestic demand from the
% YoY but flat QoQ. The increase YoY was mainly from partnership with TOT. Excluding the TOT cost, network OPEX increased 10% YoY from network expansion in both mobile and broadband but dropped 1.6% QoQ
cost. EBITDA in 3Q22 was Bt22,091mn dropped -3.5%YoY mostly from resumed marketing spending and surging network OPEX due to higher utility price and network expansion. It dropped -1.2% QoQ due to core
the sales of products. Therefore, the Corporate Group has established policy on market expansion and domestic channel development to achieve the most efficiency, as well as production cost management
repayment in April 2020 and to mitigate risk from the money market fluctuation during COVID-19. However, compared to the six- month period of 2019, the finance cost in the same period of 2020 increased by 0.7
YoY due to lower demand during pandemic in 2Q20. Revenue from interconnection charge (IC) and TOT partnership reported at Bt13,722mn, increasing 1.2%YoY mainly from fluctuation of interconnection charge