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Operating costs (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2018
Analysis of income and expense [abstract] |
Disclosure of operating costs |
|  |  | THREE MONTHS | SIX MONTHS
FOR THE PERIOD ENDED JUNE 30 | NOTE | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2018 |  | 2017 |
Labour costs |  |  |  |  |
| Wages, salaries and related taxes and benefits |  | (1,090 | ) | (1,072 | ) | (2,148 | ) | (2,075 | )
| Post-employment benefit plans service cost (net of capitalized amounts) | 10 | (63 | ) | (64 | ) | (136 | ) | (114 | )
| Other labour costs (1) |  | (262 | ) | (264 | ) | (510 | ) | (517 | )
Less: |  |  |  |  |
| Capitalized labour |  | 288 |  | 268 |  | 543 |  | 513 |
Total labour costs |  | (1,127 | ) | (1,132 | ) | (2,251 | ) | (2,193 | )
Cost of revenues (2) |  | (1,720 | ) | (1,678 | ) | (3,430 | ) | (3,305 | )
Other operating costs (3) |  | (509 | ) | (496 | ) | (1,011 | ) | (978 | )
Total operating costs |  | (3,356 | ) | (3,306 | ) | (6,692 | ) | (6,476 | )
(1) | Other labour costs include contractor and outsourcing costs.
(2) | Cost of revenues includes costs of wireless devices and other equipment sold, network and content costs, and payments to other carriers.
(3) | Other operating costs include marketing, advertising and sales commission costs, bad debt expense, taxes other than income taxes, IT costs, professional service fees and rent.

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