SingTel

[sgpunter]

Don't mean to be anal or the spelling police but AIS is SingTel's associated company and not subsidiary...got difference

This dispute will take many many years to resolve i'm certain.

[CityFarmer]

Don't mean to be anal or the spelling police but AIS is SingTel's associated company and not subsidiary...got difference

This dispute will take many many years to resolve i'm certain.

No problem. It is better to be corrected, than continue to be wrong unnoticed. Thank you.

Based on the description by SingTel side, the "dispute" seems is tactical. I don't know what is going on, but lot of "disputes" in Thailand are politically driven.

(not vested)

[CityFarmer]

Singtel investment into cyber security, is paying off, IMO...

Singtel partners with cyber security watchdog to boost Singapore's digital defences

SINGAPORE (Oct 6): Local telco Singtel has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore to strengthen Singapore’s cyber security posture and stay ahead of a rapidly evolving cyber security landscape.

Under the agreement, CSA will be working with Singtel to build up local capabilities and deliver advanced cyber security services.

CSA and Singtel will also collaborate on developing manpower through training and certification to meet increasing demand and on research and development to develop new cyber security solutions.

Apart from Singtel, CSA has also signed MOUs with foreign industry players Point Software Technologies and FireEye to develop security solutions.

At 1.46pm, Singtel was up 1.4% at $3.71.
http://www.theedgemarkets.com/sg/article...l-defences

[CityFarmer]

Data centers are badly needed for the booming cloud-based services...

Singtel invests in new $400 mil data centre in Jurong

SINGAPORE (Oct 8): Singapore Telecommunications is making its biggest data-centre investment in Singapore to date, with a new $400 million facility in Jurong.

The Tier 3-Plus data centre, which has a gross floor area of about 570,000 square feet,  will meet growing demand for co-location and cloud services here, Singtel says. It will be completed in 3Q2016.

Bill Chang, CEO, Group Enterprise, Singtel, says: "This new data centre is designed to meet the critical hosting needs of the financial services industry, government agencies, and cloud and Internet service providers. It enables Singtel to attract and host world-class cloud players in Singapore and position the country as a global hub for cloud computing and innovation."

The new plant will be equipped with a power capacity of up to 36 megawatts, one of the highest power densities in the region.

At 12.22pm, Singtel was up one cent at $3.76.
http://www.theedgemarkets.com/sg/article...tre-jurong

[Dividend Knight]

Don't mean to be anal or the spelling police but AIS is SingTel's associated company and not subsidiary...got difference

This dispute will take many many years to resolve i'm certain.

No problem. It is better to be corrected, than continue to be wrong unnoticed. Thank you.

Based on the description by SingTel side, the "dispute" seems is tactical. I don't know what is going on, but lot of "disputes" in Thailand are politically driven.

(not vested)

I am sure Singtel has an army of corporate lawyers at their disposal to deal with such 'disputes'.

[Dividend Knight]

Data centers are badly needed for the booming cloud-based services...

Singtel invests in new $400 mil data centre in Jurong

SINGAPORE (Oct 8): Singapore Telecommunications is making its biggest data-centre investment in Singapore to date, with a new $400 million facility in Jurong.

The Tier 3-Plus data centre, which has a gross floor area of about 570,000 square feet,  will meet growing demand for co-location and cloud services here, Singtel says. It will be completed in 3Q2016.

Bill Chang, CEO, Group Enterprise, Singtel, says: "This new data centre is designed to meet the critical hosting needs of the financial services industry, government agencies, and cloud and Internet service providers. It enables Singtel to attract and host world-class cloud players in Singapore and position the country as a global hub for cloud computing and innovation."

The new plant will be equipped with a power capacity of up to 36 megawatts, one of the highest power densities in the region.

At 12.22pm, Singtel was up one cent at $3.76.
http://www.theedgemarkets.com/sg/article...tre-jurong

Judging from SingTel's venture into new sectors such as cyber-security and cloud-based services, I think it is a better combination of dividend + growth stock compared to Starhub and M1. Furthermore, cyber-security and cloud services have a synergistic relationship with the traditional core Telco services.

In contrast, some of the recent actions of Starhub lack synergy to its core business. 

(Vested in all 3 telcos)

[thor666]

Data centers are badly needed for the booming cloud-based services...

Singtel invests in new $400 mil data centre in Jurong

SINGAPORE (Oct 8): Singapore Telecommunications is making its biggest data-centre investment in Singapore to date, with a new $400 million facility in Jurong.

The Tier 3-Plus data centre, which has a gross floor area of about 570,000 square feet,  will meet growing demand for co-location and cloud services here, Singtel says. It will be completed in 3Q2016.

Bill Chang, CEO, Group Enterprise, Singtel, says: "This new data centre is designed to meet the critical hosting needs of the financial services industry, government agencies, and cloud and Internet service providers. It enables Singtel to attract and host world-class cloud players in Singapore and position the country as a global hub for cloud computing and innovation."

The new plant will be equipped with a power capacity of up to 36 megawatts, one of the highest power densities in the region.

At 12.22pm, Singtel was up one cent at $3.76.
http://www.theedgemarkets.com/sg/article...tre-jurong

Judging from SingTel's venture into new sectors such as cyber-security and cloud-based services, I think it is a better combination of dividend + growth stock compared to Starhub and M1. Furthermore, cyber-security and cloud services have a synergistic relationship with the traditional core Telco services.

In contrast, some of the recent actions of Starhub lack synergy to its core business. 

(Vested in all 3 telcos)

Let me chip in:

Both m1 and starhub have their own datacentre as well, and I believe they will be on track to fill up their dc.
From a supply demand perspective, demand for cloud services currently outstrip supply. However, that may change in the future.. Most mnc have already settled their infrastructure requirements, and the global economy is facing headwinds in general. More likely companies will face eroding margins in this field with lots of competition from multiple areas.

(vested in starhub and working in a foreign telco company)

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[CityFarmer]

Data center, similarly dump pipes, are hardware. The hardware are commodity products. The differentiator is the software e.g. the cloud-based apps and managed services by local telcos.

Cloud-based apps, are either simple one e.g. mobile POS (mPOS) from M1, or sophisticated one e.g. Software-as-a-Service apps from SingTel, or not-so-sure Big Data technology from StarHub.

Managed services, are those value-added services from the telcos e.g. VPN, security, traffic management etc.

The battle-field is on the manged services packaged with partnered Cloud-based apps/data center and fiber plans. IMO, Singtel is logically targeting on mid to large SMEs due to its size, Starhub is also targeting mid to large SMEs with the focused Big Data initiative. M1, based from observation, has targeted small to mid SMEs.

(sharing a view)

[greengiraffe]

Optus snags Barclays Premier League rights

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• NOVEMBER 02, 2015 12:18PM
  

Supratim Adhikari
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Technology Editor
Melbourne

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[b]Singtel-Optus has pulled off a major coup in its plans to compete with its rivals in providing access to premium sports, with the telco securing exclusive rights to the Barclays Premier League (BPL) for the next three seasons.[/b]
The agreement, set to commence from August 2016, will see the telco usurp the exclusive coverage rights from current rights holder and local pay-TV incumbent Foxtel.
It includes live broadcast coverage and digital rights for broadband and mobile for all 380 Premier League games.
Optus chief executive Allen Lew hailed it as a landmark win for Optus.
“This is another significant step in our strategy to become a mobile-led multimedia company,” Mr Lew said in a statement.
“Today’s announcement is a great win for Optus and will ensure that Aussie football fans can watch all the action from the world’s most popular football league.”
Optus is yet to provide full details on how the BPL offering will be structured and what pricing tiers would be applicable to access to content.
The BPL wins follows closely on the footsteps of the telco’s sponsorship deal with Cricket Australia.
Under the terms of that three-year agreement, Optus becomes Cricket Australia’s multimedia partner.
Eligible Optus customers can now access a free Cricket Australia Live Pass, priced at $29.99 a season, with the data usage not counting against their data packages.
Both deals are tangible examples of Optus’s aggressive intent to take the fight up to the incumbents in the space and manifest Optus boss Allen Lew’s ambition to transform Optus from a simple connectivity provider to more comprehensive content services provider.
In June, Mr Lew highlighted Optus’s intent to ­acquire more digital media assets, ­including sports rights.
“We have to start to get involved in digital media of various sorts and I think sports rights is but one,” he said at the time.

[greengiraffe]

Optus snags Barclays Premier League rights

• THE AUSTRALIAN
  
• NOVEMBER 02, 2015 12:18PM
  

Supratim Adhikari
[Image: supratim_adhikari.png]
Technology Editor
Melbourne

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Wayne Rooney of Manchester United celebrates. Source: Getty Images
[b]Singtel-Optus has pulled off a major coup in its plans to compete with its rivals in providing access to premium sports, with the telco securing exclusive rights to the Barclays Premier League (BPL) for the next three seasons.[/b]
The agreement, set to commence from August 2016, will see the telco usurp the exclusive coverage rights from current rights holder and local pay-TV incumbent Foxtel.
It includes live broadcast coverage and digital rights for broadband and mobile for all 380 Premier League games.
Optus chief executive Allen Lew hailed it as a landmark win for Optus.
“This is another significant step in our strategy to become a mobile-led multimedia company,” Mr Lew said in a statement.
“Today’s announcement is a great win for Optus and will ensure that Aussie football fans can watch all the action from the world’s most popular football league.”
Optus is yet to provide full details on how the BPL offering will be structured and what pricing tiers would be applicable to access to content.
The BPL wins follows closely on the footsteps of the telco’s sponsorship deal with Cricket Australia.
Under the terms of that three-year agreement, Optus becomes Cricket Australia’s multimedia partner.
Eligible Optus customers can now access a free Cricket Australia Live Pass, priced at $29.99 a season, with the data usage not counting against their data packages.
Both deals are tangible examples of Optus’s aggressive intent to take the fight up to the incumbents in the space and manifest Optus boss Allen Lew’s ambition to transform Optus from a simple connectivity provider to more comprehensive content services provider.
In June, Mr Lew highlighted Optus’s intent to ­acquire more digital media assets, ­including sports rights.
“We have to start to get involved in digital media of various sorts and I think sports rights is but one,” he said at the time.

Optus snatches English Premier League rights from Fox Sports in Australia
DateNovember 2, 2015 - 11:05AM

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Optus has snatched the EPL rights in Australia from Fox Sports. Photo: AP

[/url]Optus has secured exclusive Australian broadcast rights to the English Premier League for the next three seasons.
The deal is reportedly worth more than $50 million and includes "live broadcast coverage and digital rights for broadband and mobile". Optus' coverage will commence in August 2016.
It is a huge blow for the current rights holders Fox Sports, and rich Qatar-owned broadcaster BeIN Sports, who both reportedly submitted competing bids.
Fox Sports, which is part-owned by Optus' telco rival Telstra, said they were "disappointed" to lose the rights as the league's foundation broadcast partner in Australia.
The deal is expected to have wider implications for broadcast sport in Australia, with the English Premier League a central part of Foxtel's strategy of targeting sports-mad subscribers.
Optus released a statement on Monday morning announcing the shock deal, describing it as "another significant step in our strategy to become a mobile-led multimedia company".
"Today's announcement is a great win for Optus and will ensure that Aussie football fans can watch all the action from the world's most popular football league," CEO Allen Lew said in the statement.
It is unclear how the public will access the content at this stage, with no specific details on "product constructs or pricing at this stage".
"Our goal is to make this content available to as many fans as possible – but we're not going in to detail about distribution platforms at this stage," a spokeswoman for Optus told Fairfax Media.
That could mean on-selling rights to other existing broadcasters, an online subscription model, or a new platform for distributing the matches to the EPL's millions of fans in Australia.
A senior Australian soccer figure said the deal's value suggested soccer had landed as a major sport, with broadcast values only improving.
The move is likely to have flow-on effects for other broadcast deals, including the A-League.
The domestic league is screened on SBS2 and Fox Sports, and - due to the English Premier League's poor viewing times for Australians - receives stronger audiences.
Football Federation Australia is seeking a re-negotiation of the current broadcast deal, which would include a move to a more popular free-to-air channel.
This is not Optus' first move into the sports broadcast arena. In October the company announced that it had signed a sponsorship deal with Cricket Australia to be its streaming partner. 
All Optus users are now able to access the Cricket Australia Live Pass, which gives them the ability to watch matches. This typically costs $29.99 a season and the data used up on mobile devices will not count against their download allowances.
[url=http://www.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/singteloptus-signs-deal-with-cricket-australia-to-stream-premium-content-20151021-gkfcxh.html]Lew at that time flagged the deal as "just the beginning", declaring "open season" on Australian sport broadcast rights. He set the goal of partnering with a range of codes to entice mobile and internet customers away from his rivals such as Telstra and TPG Telecom.
Digital rights for the AFL have already been secured by Telstra.
The Financial Review reported on Monday that Optus has also expressed interest in the NRL mobile streaming rights and is considered a "potential bidder" for the pay TV rights, currently held by Fox Sports.
with AAP