But Mr Mittal said the extra cost of servicing rural customers, and their low usage levels, had made things unprofitable.
Lots of things are unprofitable if you narrowly consider outlays and income — including most of our roadways.
The best hope for the rest of us is that the fall in oil prices makes extracting Canadian oil unprofitable and the whole thing goes away.
He published the books that nobody else would, because they were too risqué or too avant-garde (often that meant the same thing) or too unprofitable, and his imprint, Grove Press, quickly became a badge of coolness and sophistication.
For one thing, the number of unprofitable companies flowing through the IPO pipeline has swelled.
Again from Churchill, socialism's "inherent vice is that it spreads misery equally". We should encourage ideas like this fog collection device, to improve the human condition, because it is the right thing to do, even if unprofitable.
Rent control will make this game unprofitable and cut house prices – a good thing, unless you are a chancellor so bereft of ideas that you think a property bubble is the only way to win an election.
Mr. Peltz is known for pressuring management to raise profitability by doing things like selling noncore businesses and unprofitable ventures.
He has spent much of that time exploring precisely how Mexican food became so popular and profitable in this country — where, until very recently, most things Mexican were generally both unpopular and unprofitable.
