Articles tagged with: Singtel and Mobileone
Underground Railway Coverage Upgraded to Support 3G Phones
Antenna firm, Andrew has won a contract to upgrade the existing communications infrastructure on one of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit rail lines to support a 3G network - the first 3G service for an underground radio network in Singapore. more
Related Tags: underground, andrew, Singapore
SingTel 1Q 2008 Net Profit S$927 Million Vs S$840 Million
Related Tags: advanced-info-service, optus, globe-telecom, bharti, bharti-airtel, telkomsel, starhub
Singapore M1 2Q07 Net Profit S$40.6 Million Vs S$36.9 Million
SINGAPORE -(Dow Jones)- MobileOne, Singapore's smallest mobile telephone operator by customers, Tuesday reported a 10% rise in second-quarter net profit due to increased numbers of subscribers, a rise in the use of non-voice services and lower taxes. more
Related Tags: m1, neil-montefiore, starhub
Almost One in Five Singapore Connections are 3G
Singapore's three mobile players have recorded fourth quarter net additions figures closer together than ever, with singtel, M1 and Starhub taking 29.6%, 39.5% and 30.9% of the new customers, respectively, between September and December. Q4 2006 saw MobileOne (M1) - now Singapore's smallest operator - record the highest number of net additions in the market, as a result of reducing overall churn to a low for the year of 1.3% per month. more
Related Tags: m1, w-cdma, starhub
SingTel Could Pay Up To S$4.2 Billion In Dividend For FY06 - Analysts
SINGAPORE -(Dow Jones)- Singapore Telecommunications could pay shareholders a bumper total dividend of up to S$4.2 billion for the fiscal year ending March 31 due to the absence of large acquisitions in the past 12 months, analysts said. more
Related Tags: advanced-info-service, capex, optus, bharti, telkomsel, starhub, emirates, goldman-sachs, morgan-stanley
StarHub Closes In On M1 In Singapore Mobile Phone Market
GAPORE -(Dow Jones)- StarHub Ltd. (T54.SG) is a whisker away from overtaking MobileOne Ltd. (M31.SG) as the number two player in Singapore's mobile phone market, based on data as of Dec. 31, 2004. more
Related Tags: m1, starhub, ida
Singapore's 3G license holders meet conditions
Singapore's mobile market will get new impetus for growth in the new year in the wake of two announcements from the telecoms regulator. First, all three mobile operators have successfully met IDA's requirement for nationwide rollout of 3G systems and services. Second, IDA will allow the mobile operators the flexibility to charge different prices for calls within and outside of their own networks. more
Related Tags: 3g-phones, starhub, ida
SingTel To Sell 3G Phones From Thursday; M1 To Trial Network
SINGAPORE -(Dow Jones)- Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (T48.SG) will begin selling high-speech third generation mobile phones from Thursday, becoming Southeast Asia's first telecom company to sell the new technology, the company said in a statement Wednesday. more
GPRS roaming hub for Asia created
Aicent says that it has commenced GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX) services with a group of leading mobile operators, creating the largest GPRS roaming network in the Asia Pacific region. more
Related Tags: indosat, gsm-association, far-eastone, smartone, ctm
Virgin Mobile launched in Singapore
Virgin commercially launched its MVNO joint venture with singtel in Singapore on Friday, and found that it could only receive calls from other singtel customers. Customers using MobileOne or StarHub cannot currently phone customers on the new Virgin network. MobileOne cliams that it was formally requested to provide interconnection to the new network only one week ago, and that it takes at least three weeks to arrange the interconnection. However, Virgin says that it has a letter dated August 15th that requested the interconnection to be arranged by last Thursday. StarHub says that it has now come to an agreement to transfer calls to singtel for the Virgin MVNO. Sir Richard Branson, Virgin's Chairman said "To switch someone on is a five-minute job. They think that this is going to help their battle against Virgin Mobile but it won't," adding that customers should switch networks, to his of course, as a protest." more
Related Tags: virgin-mobile, starhub

