Singtel
 |
|
|
Formerly called
|
Private Telephone Exchange |
|---|---|
| Public listed company | |
| Traded as | SGX: Z74 |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1879 |
| Headquarters | Singapore |
|
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 |
 $16.961 billion SGD (March 2016) |
|
$5.013 billion SGD (March 2016) |
|
| Profit |
$3.871 billion SGD (March 2016) |
|
Number of employees
|
>25,000 |
| Subsidiaries | Optus |
| Website | singtel |
Singapore Telecommunications Limited, commonly abbreviated 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, making it 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 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 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 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.
...
Wikipedia