Singtel and SK Telecom host metaverse meet-up, but the jury’s still out
2023 looks set to be another year of ups and downs for the metaverse.
2023 looks set to be another year of ups and downs for the metaverse.
A consortium comprising six telcos will plough $300 million into yet another new cable system connecting Southeast Asia and China.
Singtel has inked a S$2.25 billion (US$1.6 billion) deal to offload a 3.3 percent direct stake in Bharti Airtel as part of its broader asset monetisation push.
Singtel is pushing forward with the sale of its cybersecurity business as part of a business streamlining push that will see it focus on 5G and new growth areas.
Australian Tower Network has agreed to acquire Axicom and its 2,000 telco towers for A$3.58 billion, over a billion dollars more than its own similarly-sized business was apparently worth just six months ago.
Singtel has brokered a deal to sell off its towers in Australia and unveiled a strategy to build new data centres outside Singapore.
The Singapore telco detected a data dump on a third-party site containing personal information of more than 57,000 of its customers.
Singapore’s incumbent operator this week gave an unvarnished appraisal of its performance during its recently-ended financial year.
Singtel distracted the industry from a weak set of full-year results with the publication of a new strategy that includes the planned sale of a broad swathe of infrastructure assets.
Singapore incumbent Singtel’s consumer chief Yuen Kuan Moon will take over as group CEO from January.
Singtel and Starhub have celebrated winning 5G licenses by announcing Ericsson and Nokia as their respective kit vendor partners.
SK Telecom has joined forces with Thailand’s AIS and Singapore’s Singtel to launch a new partnership to develop new gaming-related revenue streams.
In partnership with Razer and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), Singtel is testing the readiness of its network to capitalise on the fast-growing cloud gaming segment.
SingTel reported almost flat revenues and 14% decline in net profit in the quarter ending 31 December 2018, blaming negative influence from its investments in Australia and India.
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.
Etisalat, Singtel, SoftBank and Telefónica have teamed up to form the Global Cyber Security Alliance, patrolling the shadowy information highway to protect innocent punters from the evils of Malwareman and Dastardly DDoS.
Revenues up and profits down. Some regions did well and some did bad. The consumer business declined and Digital Life jumped up. A real mixed bag for Singtel.
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.
The launch of Singapore’s first 5G Center of Excellence has been claimed by operator Singtel in partnership with kit vendor Ericsson.
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.
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