StarHub the latest to suffer customer data breach
The Singapore telco detected a data dump on a third-party site containing personal information of more than 57,000 of its customers.
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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.
Singtel sells broad range of assets as earnings plummet
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.
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, AIS and SK bundle together for gaming JV
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.
Singtel to push forward with 5G cloud gaming trial
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 saw Q4 profit drop by 14%
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.
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.
Etisalat, Singtel, SoftBank and Telefónica become security superheroes
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.
Singtel throws out a mixed bag for its latest quarterly results
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 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.
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.
Ericsson, SingTel and Qualcomm claim first FDD/TDD carrier aggregation
Ericsson, SingTel and Qualcomm Technologies have announced the successful demonstration of frequency division duplex (FDD) and time division duplex (TDD) carrier aggregation of the LTE Advanced network. The aggregated approach allows for more efficient use of spectrum, and increased network speeds.
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.
China Mobile, KDDI and Google among $300m Pacific cable consortium
A consortium of six companies has agreed to build and operate a new trans-Pacific cable system linking Japan with the US. It has an initial design capacity of 60Tb per second and is consequently called ‘FASTER’, despite not apparently being an acronym.
Singtel claims functionality first with VoLTE launch
In the latest of a spate of announcements relating to Voice over LTE, Singaporean incumbent Singtel has launched what it claims is the world’s first commercial and fully featured VoLTE service. The city state operator, which launched the service in partnership with Samsung and Ericsson, said that its 4G Clearvoice service is the only live VoLTE service offering features such as call waiting and call forwarding over an LTE network.
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.
100Gbps submarine cable project gets operator backing
A project to build a 100Gbps, 20,000km long submarine cable system connecting Europe to Singapore has been backed by 15 operators from around the world. Infrastructure vendors NEC and Alcatel-Lucent will be supplying the equipment, with NEC deploying the segment spanning Singapore to Sri Lanka, and Alcatel-Lucent deploying the stretch from Sri Lanka to France.
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