This gap between government expectations and IOC risk appetite is only to get wider from hereon in.

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For other players, it's about starting where we are now - putting the past to one side and simply taking the best course from hereon in.

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The company believes that the inventory depletion has run its course in markets such as auto, industrial and infrastructure and that the demand should pick up hereon.

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Increasing competition from rivals Verizon and Sprint in an increasingly saturated wireless market is gradually causing subscriber growth to slow, and the availability (or not) of LTE in certain markets could be key to attracting new subscribers as well as retaining old ones from hereon.

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