Posted by: krishnabaidya on: October 1, 2009
Singapore operator wins pay-TV, Internet and mobile rights for three years. Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. said Thursday that it won a bid for broadcast rights for its pay-television service to show Barclays Premier League football matches for three years from August 2010, beating out rival StarHub Ltd. The rights to the English Premier League games are [...]
Posted by: krishnabaidya on: August 7, 2009
Singapore’s Starhub has reported that its second-quarter operating revenue was stable at S$532 million compared to S$531 million in Q2 2008. The Group’s EBITDA for the quarter rose 10% to S$161 million, and net profit after tax increased 21% to S$78 million. Capital expenditure (capex) was S$24 million higher at S$70 million from a year [...]
Posted by: krishnabaidya on: July 9, 2009
Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia and M1, one of the leading wireless carriers in Singapore, have announced today that a new, easy-to-use email service is coming towards the latter’s customers. The new service, none other than Nokia Messaging, comes to mobile phone users in the country with push email functionality, as well as with a [...]
Posted by: krishnabaidya on: July 9, 2009
SingTel announced that its mio TV service has surpassed its 100,000 customer mark. Milestone coincides with the service’s second birthday; all new and existing customers will be given a special selection of ten movies which they can watch on-demand for free. SingTel also launched Football Frenzy, Singapore’s first multimedia social football experience, which will be [...]
Posted by: krishnabaidya on: July 2, 2009
Gartner assessed the suitability of APAC countries as offshore locations and identified “10 Leading Locations for Offshore Services in Asia Pacific for 2009.” These included the undisputed leader in offshore services, India, and the greatest challenger in terms of potential scale (China). The rest are a mix of mature environments that offer limited cost-benefits (Australia, [...]
Posted by: krishnabaidya on: June 16, 2009
SingTel, Southeast Asia’s largest telco, on Sunday launched in Singapore a service that lets mobile subscribers download music files and videos which it hopes to introduce to other parts of Asia. Developed with Universal Music, SingTel hopes the web-based facility, called AMPed, will help it attract new customers as well as get existing subscribers to [...]
Posted by: krishnabaidya on: June 9, 2009
British content now on Mio TV Comes shortly StarHub’s announcement BBC Worldwide and ITV content partners Close on the heels of StarHub’s announcement of more BBC content on its pay TV platform, rival SingTel has unveiled the extent of its British content offering. Come 15 July, mio TV will be able to broadcast selected content [...]
Posted by: krishnabaidya on: May 14, 2009
SingTel yield better result than expected – Q4 profit beats forecasts Continue to look at M&A (Pakistan market consolidation is of particular interest) Earnings impacted by strong Singapore dollars against regional currency SingTel, South East Asia’s biggest telecom company, reported a 17 percent drop in quarterly profit in the fourth quarter. It made S$903 million [...]
Posted by: krishnabaidya on: May 13, 2009
New feature to enable customers to view Anytime Enhanced ability to record shows (up to seven days in advance) On Monday, StarHub has launched a viewer friendly feature that allows viewers to catch up shows they have missed on two different services – On Demand Channels for catching up on shows after their telecast, and [...]
Posted by: krishnabaidya on: May 13, 2009
According to a study performed by IDC for the Business Software Alliance, global software piracy is increasing. The report estimated that worldwide losses due to piracy totaled $53 billion, an 11 percent y-o-y increase. The study estimated that pirated software accounted for 41 percent of all software installations globally, which is neck to neck to [...]
