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Singapore Telecommunications Limited

Singapore Telecommunications Limited
Formerly called
Private Telephone Exchange
Public listed company
Traded as SGX: Z74
Industry Telecommunications
Founded 1879; 138 years ago (1879)
Headquarters 31 Exeter Rd, Singapore 239732
Area served
Asia, Australia and Africa
Key people
Chua Sock Koong (Group CEO)
Products Fixed-line and mobile telephony, broadband and fixed-line internet services, digital television, IT and network services
Revenue Increase $16.961 billion SGD (March 2016)
Increase $5.013 billion SGD (March 2016)
Profit Increase $3.871 billion SGD (March 2016)
Owner Temasek Holdings
Number of employees
>25,000
Subsidiaries Optus and NCS Pte Ltd
Website singtel.com

Singapore Telecommunications Limited (commonly abbreviated as Singtel, and previously stylised as SingTel) is a Singaporean telecommunications company. With a combined mobile subscriber base of over 600 million customers in 25 countries at end of July, 2016, it is one of the largest mobile network operators in Singapore and the 20–30 largest in the world. The company was known as Telecommunications Equipment until 1995. Singtel provides ISP (SingNet), IPTV (Singtel TV) and mobile phone networks (Singtel Mobile) and fixed line telephony services.

Singtel has expanded aggressively outside its home market and owns shares in many regional operators, including 100% of the second largest Australian telco, Optus, which was acquired in 2001 from Cable & Wireless and other shareholders of Optus, and 32.15% of Bharti Airtel, the largest carrier in India.

Singtel controls significant market share in Singapore, with 82% of the fixed-line market, 47% of the mobile market and 43% of the broadband market in Singapore. Singtel is also the largest company by market capitalisation listed on the Singapore Exchange and is majority owned by Temasek Holdings, the investment arm of the Singapore government. Singtel is an active investor in innovation companies through its Singtel Innov8 subsidiary, founded in 2011 with S$200 million.

Singtel's international submarine cable network provides connections from Singapore to more than 100 countries. It is a major investor in many of the world's submarine cable systems, such as South-East Asia – Middle East – Western Europe 3 Cable Network, South-East Asia – Middle East – Western Europe 4 Cable Network, Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2, China-US, Japan-US, Southern Cross Cable Network and Unity Cable Network. Unity Cable Network was commissioned in March 2010.


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