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Fitch downgrades ratings for Singtel and Optus
Downgrade reflects weaker-than-expected growth prospects as well as capex pressure resulting in higher leverage than previously anticipated
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Fiona Lam
Published Mon, Mar 2, 2020 · 09:50 PM
Singapore
FITCH Ratings has downgraded Singtel's long-term foreign- and local-currency issuer default ratings (IDR) and foreign-currency senior unsecured rating to A from A+.
The agency also lowered the long-term foreign-currency IDR and senior unsecured rating of the telco's wholly-owned Australian subsidiary Singtel Optus to A- from A.
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