Singtel sheds towers, adds data centres
Singtel has brokered a deal to sell off its towers in Australia and unveiled a strategy to build new data centres outside Singapore.
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Singtel chief says last year was one of the toughest in company’s history
Singapore’s incumbent operator this week gave an unvarnished appraisal of its performance during its recently-ended financial year.
Facebook announces two new trans-Pacific cables
Social media giant Facebook’s continuing interest in connectivity has led it to propose two new cables linking the US and Singapore via novel routes.
Ericsson bags 5G SA deal with Singtel
Singapore is closer to getting proper, next stage 5G services after Singtel picked Ericsson for its standalone 5G deployment.
End of an era as Singtel CEO Sock Koong hands over the torch
Singapore incumbent Singtel’s consumer chief Yuen Kuan Moon will take over as group CEO from January.
Singapore snubs Huawei over 5G
Singtel and Starhub have celebrated winning 5G licenses by announcing Ericsson and Nokia as their respective kit vendor partners.
Singtel and Ericsson boast about another 5G ‘first’
While press statements claiming a ‘first’ in 5G are becoming somewhat repetitive, Singtel and Ericsson have paired up to milk the increasingly tiresome claim once more.
Nokia gets a big piece of China Mobile optical transport gig
The world’s biggest MNO – China Mobile – recently held a central bid to supply equipment for its regional optical transport network, in which it ranked Nokia top.
Ericsson and Singtel claim APAC LAA record
Ericsson and long-time operator partner Singtel have announced they managed to hit 1.1 Gbps in a joint trial of a new LAA configuration.
Nokia picks Singapore to show what a great idea IoT is
A collaboration between Nokia and Singapore operator StarHub will try to develop all kinds of IoT services and maybe even launch a few of them.
Singtel chooses Ericsson for 5G Center of Excellence
The launch of Singapore’s first 5G Center of Excellence has been claimed by operator Singtel in partnership with kit vendor Ericsson.
Singtel signals the end of copper networks
Singtel has announced plans to accelerate the rollout of fibre networks in the nation, including the aim of progressively closing copper-based ADSL by early 2018.
M1 NB-IoT TLC IRL FTW
M1 has announced the launch of, what it claims, is South-east Asia’s first commercial nationwide NB-IoT in Singapore.
Nokia helps M1 Singapore roll out commercial NB-IoT and HetNet
Finnish networking giant Nokia has secured a double win with Singapore MNO M1 with the roll out of Singapore’s first commercial HetNet and a deal to do the same for NB-IoT early next year.
LoRa and Sigfox announce LPWANs in Netherlands and Singapore
The low power IoT network roll-outs continue to gather pace with KPN launching a LoRa one in the Netherlands and a Sigfox one being unveiled in Singapore.
100Gbps Singapore-Europe submarine cable set for 2016 completion
Alcatel-Lucent has announced the work for a new 20,000km-long 100Gbps submarine cable connecting Europe to South East Asia via Middle East is under way. and is expected to complete by 2016.
SingTel fined $4.8m for network outage
Singapore’s telecoms regulator has imposed a financial penalty of S$6m ($4.8m) on mobile operator SingTel following a service outage that lasted nine days and affected almost 270,000 customers.
Uncertainty and risk: the results of spectrum renewal by auction
The use of auctions for spectrum renewal seems pointless and likely only to create uncertainty and risk for operators, says Graham Friend, managing director at Coleago Consulting. New entrants know they are likely to be outbid by incumbents and the uncertainty generated dampens the desire of those incumbents to invest and innovate, which is not good at a time when governments want to see a rapid and extensive roll-out of LTE.
Singtel boosts Bharti Telecom holding
Singaporean incumbent operator Singtel is to up its stake in India’s Bharti Telecom to 39.78 per cent, taking its effective interest in Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile operator, to 32.34 per cent.
Fastest Asian submarine cable open for business
Asia’s fastest submarine cable link opened for business this week, carrying traffic at a blistering 40Gbps between Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines with an additional link to Hong Kong to be added in December.
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