Optus

BROKERS’ TAKE

Earnings miss, downside risks weigh on Singtel shares, but RHB sees ‘re-entry opportunity’

2026-05-22T08:00:29.000Z
Singtel is seeking a “like-minded long-term local partner” that would take a “meaningful minority stake” in Optus.
BT EXPLAINS

Why is Singtel seeking an Aussie partner for Optus?

2026-05-21T07:50:00.000Z
The outage on Monday (Feb 9) followed a technical failure in September 2025, which contributed to the deaths of two people.

About 60,000 users still hit by Singtel-owned Optus’ mobile service outage

2026-02-09T14:59:22.000Z
The report notes that two people died after the Sep 18 incident, when emergency calls were blocked due to an outage following a network upgrade.

Optus outage review flags process, protocol gaps; Singtel expects recommendations to kick in ‘swiftly’

2025-12-18T22:44:39.000Z
Optus said an “aerial fibre break” could be the cause of the outage, which was being investigated.

Australia’s Optus suffers call outage, vandalism blamed

2025-11-28T01:52:02.000Z
Notes will be drawn down under Optus Finance's Euro Medium Term Note programme, which has a size of three billion euros.

Singtel’s Optus prices S$200 million notes due 2035 at 2.48% 

2025-11-25T13:21:16.000Z
Singtel group chief executive officer Yuen Kuan Moon says the telco has invested A$9 billion (S$7.7 billion) in capital expenditures at Optus over the past five years.

Singtel remains ‘fully behind’ Optus despite outages and lacklustre returns

2025-11-13T08:20:47.000Z
Optus has been in turmoil since the botched network upgrade prevented customers from calling emergency services and led to multiple deaths.

CEO of Singtel-owned Optus says he has no plans to resign in fiery probe into fatal outage

2025-11-03T00:13:02.000Z
The Optus headquarters in Sydney. Australia’s second-largest telco has had to deal with issues such as hackers stealing customer data and service outages.
THINKING ALOUD

A hard time ahead for Optus, Singtel’s Australian telco

2025-10-07T23:00:00.000Z
Optus' revenue of A$8.2 billion was roughly half that of the Singtel Group in FY2025. The Australian unit was last profitable in FY2020.

Singtel pledges support for troubled long-time unit Optus; transformation ‘will take time’

2025-10-05T23:00:00.000Z