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OUTLOOK 2026

Mobile resellers face cost hikes as telco consolidation cuts bargaining power

With the Simba-M1 merger, MVNOs could lose bargaining power and thus may have to tie up or exit

The mobile network is meant to serve the beach and forested area in front of the iFly building, says Benjamin Tan, chief technology officer at Simba.

iFly Sentosa parent sues Simba over equipment ‘trespass’

Skyventure VWT alleges the equipment has resulted in revenue loss

StarHub chief executive Nikhil Eapen says the 'structural advantage' that the new entity would have from the 900 MHz spectrum must be "addressed directly".

Additional spectrum from Simba-M1 merger would give new entity ‘structural advantage’, says StarHub

Telcos react to proposed merger; Circles.Life is concerned about the new entity’s pole position in the wholesale market

The decline in StarHub's earnings has been attributed to lower gross profit from segments with revenue decline.

StarHub’s Q3 profit falls 35.3% to S$26.2 million

Revenue for the period is down 4.3% at S$550.3 million

The merged entity would control 77% of the wholesale market and have a postpaid retail market share exceeding 38%, notes Circles.Life.

Circles.Life raises concerns over M1-Simba deal to IMDA, warns merger could hurt consumers

The telco, which is among M1’s mobile virtual network operators, says the merged entity’s wholesale market share threatens fair competition

The proceedings relate to mobile virtual network arrangements between Liberty Wireless and M1.

Circles.Life parent Liberty Wireless takes M1 to court over network agreement

The proceedings’ outcome is not expected to affect the proposed sale of M1’s telco business

The securities will be issued in denominations of S$250,000 each.

StarHub prices S$200 million perpetual securities at 3.35%

Net proceeds from the issue will be used to finance the group’s general corporate funding requirements and investments

Optus, the second-largest telco in Australia, faces the possibility of losing subscribers, notes Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Chris Muckensturm.

Singtel’s Optus headwinds could trigger near-term risks, warn analysts

Maybank Securities expects Singapore telco’s stock to remain range-bound, despite potential setbacks

“I want to reiterate how sorry I am about the very sad loss of the lives of four people, who could not reach emergency services in their time of need,” says Optus CEO Stephen Rue.

Singtel’s Optus blames departure from ‘established processes’ for emergency calls outage

[SYDNEY] Optus, Australia’s No 2 telecom carrier, said on Sunday (Sep 21) that a departure from regular processes on a network upgrade sparked a technical failure that disrupted emergency call service...