Singtel's Chua Sock Koong, Temasek's Ho Ching on Fortune's list of most...
SINGAPORE - Two Singaporean women have been named on a list of the 50 most powerful women based outside the United States (US) by wealth magazine Fortune.Singtel Group CEO Chua Sock Koong was ranked...
View ArticleSingtel CEO on Thai, Indian telcos and tapping high-performing markets
Singapore Telecommunications' (Singtel) recent move to enhance its deemed stakes in the top mobile operators of Thailand and India, Advanced Info Services (AIS) and Bharti Airtel respectively, by...
View ArticleDBS, Singtel launch suite of resources to help SMEs
DBS Bank and Singtel have unveiled a suite of resources to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with marketing, e-commerce and cashless payments.This is part of a campaign called 99% SME,...
View ArticleSingtel has the edge to ride out headwinds
As the possibility of a new entrant into the already crowded Singapore mobile phone market comes closer to reality, it raises once again the question of how this development will affect the existing...
View ArticleSingtel staff to get 2 days off for SkillsFuture courses
SingaporeIN SUPPORT of the Singapore govern-ment's SkillsFuture initiative, Singtel will give its full-time staff two days of leave each year to attend SkillsFuture courses.Singtel's group chief human...
View ArticleSingtel 'may list broadband unit Netlink next year'
Singtel plans to list its broadband unit on the Singapore Exchange next year, in a move that could raise about US$2 billion (S$2.7 billion), said a Reuters report quoting sources.The listing would...
View ArticleSingtel in consortium to build Perth-S'pore cable link
Singapore - Singtel, SubPartners, and Telstra on Thursday said they have signed a memorandum of understanding to build a new international submarine cable, called APX-West, connecting Perth and...
View ArticleNew Singapore telco faces uphill battle
An upstart faces a tough climb to break into Singapore's already saturated telecom industry.The city-state, with a population of only around 5.5 million, already has three mobile-service operators, all...
View ArticleWin-win for Singtel Innov8 and start-ups
After a string of eye-catching deals, Singtel Innov8 has emerged as one of the most successful venture capital investors across Asia.Since its US$250 million (S$350 million) fund started in 2010, it...
View Article'A fourth telco cutting prices won't benefit consumers'
If the upcoming airwave auction spawns a fourth telco that cuts prices to grab market share, consumers could be worse off in the long run, said Singtel's senior management."At the end of the day, if...
View ArticleS'pore telcos beat regional average
Their total returns may be negative for the year so far, but Singapore's three telco stocks continue to deliver dividend and free cash flow yields above the regional average for such shares.Singtel...
View ArticleSingapore Telecom net profit falls 1.7 per cent
Singapore - Singapore Telecom blamed the strength of the local dollar after it announced Friday net profit fell 1.7 per cent in the quarter to the end of December.Net profit totalled S$954 million...
View ArticleSingapore Air, SingTel win India approval for investment plans
NEW DELHI - Singapore Airlines has won the Indian Foreign Investment Promotion Board's approval to set up a full-service airline in the country in a joint venture with the Tata conglomerate, a senior...
View ArticleSingTel gets two offers for Australian satellite business: Sources
HONG KONG - Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel) has received two offers for its Australian satellite business in the final round of the bidding, including one from US-listed Intelsat SA, three...
View ArticleS'pore test bed for new SingTel ad service
SINGAPORE shoppers will be the guinea pigs for a new SingTel service that provides interactive advertising campaigns in stores. The campaign will be launched in time for the Christmas shopping season...
View ArticleJJ Lin proves to be your regular DOTA fan, spotted at local LAN shop on day...
Even if you're not a Singtel user, you would have definitely heard the collective wails of agony across the island during Singtel's day-long broadband service disruption last Saturday.While many who...
View ArticleTelco services need to be up to scratch
Based on the recent disruption of Singtel's broadband services, it appears there is a trend for such disruptions to occur and last over prolonged periods ("Singtel fibre broadband services disrupted";...
View ArticleStill no access for some Singtel subscribers
Some subscribers of Singtel broadband were still without Internet access yesterday, a day after the telco said all its services were fully restored on Sunday morning following an islandwide outage.They...
View ArticleSingtel broadband outage sparks epic rap battle between customer and staff
If you were among those affected by Singtel's broadband outage on Saturday (Dec 3), you definitely weren't alone in trying to get answers and solutions.But how do you get the telco's attention on...
View ArticleThe day Singtel broadband went down
I found out that I had no Internet on the Internet.I watched TV on Saturday evening.This could mean only one of two things.Saturday was National Day and the parade was on.Or the Internet was...
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