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Retail Asia16/10/2018

Signs have not been good lately for Singtel, StarHub and M1, the country’s three large telecommunications companies. Technological innovations, as well as changes in regulations, have sent shock waves through the big three companies, and virtual mobile telcos such as MyRepublic, Zero1 and Circles.Life have also posed a threat to the larger players. But with […]

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Retail Asia16/10/2018

Australia’s Optus, through subsidiary Optus Business, has expanded its line-up of fully managed ICT solutions for enterprises. The operator has added contact center, security and storage solutions to its Optus GO portfolio of managed services. Optus GO Contact Centre provides cloud based contact center capabilities including management of inbound and outbound calls, chat and email. […]

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Retail Asia12/10/2018

Singtel has launched a new globally available platform designed to allow enterprises to easily configure their networks to better support their business requirements. The Liquid Infrastructure platform integrates physical and virtual network services into a single platform embedded with network visibility and intelligence capabilities. This allows enterprises to deploy network resources as and when needed. The […]

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Retail Asia10/10/2018

Singtel and four of its regional mobile associates have entered a collaboration agreement aimed at stimulating the gaming and eSports ecosystem in Southeast Asia, Australia and India. Singtel and wholly-owned Australian subsidiary Optus have signed agreements with India’s Bharti Airtel, Thailand’s AIS, the Philippines’ Globe Telecom and Indonesia’s Telkomsel covering areas including scaling up eSports, […]

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Retail Asia10/10/2018

Singtel has launched a new ultra-fast fiber broadband service targeted at gamers, which comes bundled with a dedicated gaming Wi-Fi modem. The new 1+1 Gbps Fibre Pro Gamer Bundle comes with the newly launched Razer Sila gaming router and a subscription to the WTFast Gamer Private Network service, which is designed to automatically connect gamers to the […]

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Retail Asia09/10/2018

Singtel and Thai mobile affiliate AIS have jointly launched a cross-border mobile payment alliance known as VIA, introducing Singapore-Thailand cross border mobile payments in collaboration with Thailand’s Kasikornbank. Through the collaboration, Singtel and AIS will offer QR code based mobile payments through their respective mobile wallets – Singtel Dash, as well as AIS Global Pay and Rabbit Line Play. The […]

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Retail Asia18/05/2018

Singtel has reported a record full-year profit of S$5.45 billion ($4.06 billion) for the 12 months ending in March, mostly as a result of the windfall the company received from the NetLink NBN Trust IPO last year. Singtel was required to divest 75% of its 100% stake in NetLink NBN Trust, the network company for Singapore’s next-generation […]

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Retail Asia04/05/2018

Singtel Group and gaming hardware manufacturer Razer have entered an agreement to collaborate in the areas of e-payments, eSports and gaming related digital media and telecoms services in the Southeast Asian region. The two companies will seek to capitalize on the growth of the mobile payments market in Southeast Asia, which is predicted to be […]

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Retail Asia12/04/2018

Singtel has entered a partnership with VMware International to set up a Digital Transformation Foundry in Singapore. The new facility will be designed as a virtual sandbox for customers to conduct proof-of-concept experiments aimed at bringing digital solutions to market more quickly. Enterprises will be able to test their solutions in a hybrid cloud environment before deploying them across […]

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Retail Asia21/03/2018

Singtel expects the service to launch mid-2018 in 20,000 points in Singapore and Thailand. Travellers with Singtel’s mobile wallets could soon continue to use their home wallet app to make payments when overseas. Singtel will link its mobile wallets across different ecosystems through an interoperable platform. It will begin with the mobile wallets of the […]

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Retail Asia16/02/2018

Singtel has reported a 9% decline in profit for its fiscal third quarter to S$890 million ($671.7 million) as a result of declining voice revenues, higher costs and lower earnings from the operator’s regional mobile associates. Revenue for the December quarter grew 4% to S$4.6 billion as a result of higher earnings from Singtel’s wholly-owned Australian subsidiary […]

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Retail Asia26/01/2018

Singtel has appointed Arthur Wong (pictured) as its new CEO of global cyber security to help fulfil the operator’s ambition of becoming a global leader in the cyber security market. Wong joins Singtel from IT services company DXC Technology, where he served as SVP and general manager of the company’s security business. DXC was formed from the $25.6 billion […]

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Retail Asia21/12/2017

Singtel has entered an agreement with global smart metering vendor EDMI Limited to develop a smart electric metering infrastructure for Singapore. The partners have been testing the use of smart electric meters over Singtel’s nationwide LTE Cat-M1 cellular IoT network to enable the wireless transmission of real-time meter readings to the power grid. The companies […]

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Retail Asia26/10/2017

Singaporean incumbent carrier Singtel has launched a new network solution to support enterprises’ evolving networking needs across the globe. The new solution, touted as Singtel Managed Software-Defined Branch (Singtel SD Branch), is delivered through a “white box” or generic hardware that enables enterprises to manage multiple and virtualized network functions at their existing sites or when they […]

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Retail Asia13/10/2017

Singtel and Ericsson have announced plans to jointly establish Singapore’s first 5G Center of Excellence to spearhead Singapore’s evolution to 5G. The center will receive co-funding from both Singtel and Ericsson, with the companies committing an initial $2 million investment for the next three years. It will seek to train 100 Singtel engineers in the critical competencies involved in designing and operating a […]

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Retail Asia09/10/2017

Singtel has signed on as the exclusive telco partner in Singapore for Google’s planned Pixel 2 XL smartphone. The operator will become the first in Southeast Asia to launch the device for customers when it is launched on November 15, Singtel said. The Cat 11 LTE compatible Pixel 2 XL will support data speeds of […]

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Retail Asia18/09/2017

Singtel has launched what it says are Singapore’s first mobile plans with unlimited data, talktime and SMS, following a nationwide network upgrade to 500Mbps on compatible handsets. The operator’s new Singtel Combo 3, 6 and 12 mobile plans will be upgraded with unlimited talktime and SMS, will come with an optional add-on providing unlimited local […]

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Retail Asia14/09/2017

Singtel has revealed plans to progressively shut down its copper-based ADSL networks as part of a push to accelerate fiber based service adoption to business and residential customers. The operator will shut down copper-based ADSL that supports broadband, TV, digital voice and private network services in stages during a process expected to be completed by […]

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Retail Asia13/09/2017

Singtel has expanded its OTT video portal app CAST to incorporate the video on demand streaming service HOOQ. HOOQ, a joint venture between Singtel, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Warner Bros, has a library of over 20,000 movies and TV series. It has launched across SEA and in India. Movies are available on the platform up […]

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Retail Asia17/08/2017

Wirecard has teamed up with Singtel to support the recent deployment of Singapore’s first Visa virtual card for Singtel’s mobile wallet Dash. Singtel Dash is an all-in-one digital wallet that allows customers to shop, pay transport fares and remit money. Since the launch of the Visa virtual account last month, Singtel Dash’s 500,000 customers have […]

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