expansion due to ongoing recovery in private consumption and the tourism sector during the festive season, despite delayed government budget disbursement. Overall, AIS reported core service revenue of

Baht. The rise in the costs was due to increased loans funding the construction of “MahaSamutr” and “Nimit Langsuan” projects and the expansion of DEAN & DELUCA in the United States while the Company has

revenue, AIS continued to invest for network quality and capacity through deployment of additional bandwidth recently acquired while coverage expansion mostly done the year earlier, resulted in lower capex

to increased loans funding the construction of “MahaSamutr” and “Nimit Langsuan” projects and the expansion of DEAN & DELUCA in the United States while the Company has continued to pay back the loan

exports which rose by 5.3% YoY as well as continued recovery in private consumption which expanding by 3.1% YoY. Nevertheless, Thailand's advertising industry reported a decline of 6.0% YoY to THB 101,445mn

decreasing 0.7% QoQ. Excluding cost of TOT partnership, network OPEX would increase 7.6% YoY and 4% QoQ due mainly to utility and maintenance costs from 4G network expansion. Other costs of service were

countries. The tourism sector has been adversely affected by a contraction of Chinese tourists’ arrivals while private investment has been expanding at a slower rate. Although private consumption has

not result in an increase in consumption to the same extent. Store expansion in the second quarter was in line with plan. The company opened two new stores: one HomePro S store at BigC Bangna in May

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

%. An increasing was mainly from administrative expenses which results from bad debt allowance in lending business and personal expense increase from business expansion. Operating profit in 2017 was 1,109