Optus

BROKERS’ TAKE

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

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?

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

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’

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

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% 

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

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

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

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’