PDD Bandwidth and Server Costs (Legacy Form 20-F by Year

PDD Bandwidth and Server Costs (Legacy Form 20-F: 1,497M in FY2019, up 158.6% from a year earlier. No newer figure appears in the documents we track.

“Our costs of revenues, which only consist of costs of online marketplace services from 2018 onward, increased by 118.2% from RMB2,905.2 million in 2018 to RMB6,338.8 million in 2019, primarily due to increases in bandwidths and server costs, staff costs and other expenses directly attributable to the online marketplace services, partially offset by rebates of payment processing fees. The increase in bandwidths and server costs from RMB578.9 million in 2018 to RMB1,496.9 million in 2019 was due to the increase in server capacity to keep pace with the growth of our online marketplace services. The increase in staff costs from RMB116.4 million in 2018 to RMB286.2 million in 2019 was primarily due to the increase of annual average headcount for employees dedicated to the operations of our platform. The increase in other expenses directly attributable to the online marketplace services was primarily due to the higher costs of call center and merchant support services from RMB991.6 million in 2018 to RMB3,093.8 million in 2019. The decrease in payment processing fees from RMB639.3 million in 2018 to RMB341.9 million in 2019 was primarily attributable to payment rebate received relating to processing fees.”

Source: PDD Holdings Inc. Form 20-F (pdd-20201231x20f.htm, filed 2021-04-30) ↗

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