Telcos

Customers allowed to register only 10 postpaid SIM cards across all telcos from Feb 28

IMDA and the telcos have been working together to tighten SIM card registration to prevent illicit use

Keppel notes that detailed terms are still being finalised, and that it expects to execute the definitive agreement in the second quarter of 2026.

Keppel secures 25-year fibre pair deal on Bifrost Cable System with global telco

The trans-Pacific system began carrying commercial traffic in December 2025

Colt's infrastructure is found mainly in the CBD, alongside that of incumbents Singtel and StarHub.

London player Colt targets data centre migration to expand Singapore market share

It views global connectivity as its competitive advantage, and identifies opportunities in SGX data centre migration

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’

The report finds that ‘challenges in Optus’ culture’ affected decision-making and response times

IMDA deemed the impact of the incident as “significant”, and said that the potential consequences on the safety and security of the public “could have been very serious”.

Singtel hit with S$1 million fine for 2024 disruption that affected over 500,000 users

The incident on Oct 8 last year affected more than 500,000 users for more than four hours

An analyst notes that MVNOs with select "customer niches” will perform better in Singapore, though such niches may be “sub-scale” in the Republic.
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