DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Telecoms & 5G, Singtel
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Singtel in talks over Optus stake sale in Australia
As the ACMA sues Optus over last year's Triple Zero outage
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CapitaLand sells Singapore data center for $155.2m
Former Singtel facility sold to unknown buyer
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Singapore telco Singtel considers REIT to fund data center and AI build-out
Telco potentially looks to follow other data center operators
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Lightstorm to launch India-Malaysia-Singapore subsea cable system with Microsoft, Singtel, and Tata Communications
Follows Tata’s earlier announcement it would be investing in the consortium
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Singtel considers minority stake sale in Optus
Wants to find an Australian partner that can take a "meaningful stake"
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Singtel confirms company in negotiations to buy STT GDC
Telco didn't provide further details on negotiations
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Globalstar expands satellite ground station in Singapore
To add two new antenna at Singtel-hosted site
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Singapore-Japan SJC2 subsea cable goes live, five years later than originally planned
System goes live soon after plans for next Singapore-Japan cable were announced
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Singtel sells 1.2 percent stake in Airtel for $1.55bn
Will still hold a 28.3 percent stake in the Indian telco
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Singtel to close five legacy data centers in Singapore - report
Five facilities reportedly total a "handful of megawatts"
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Singtel launches 5G across Singapore's MRT network
And Boldyn Networks brings 5G to 42nd Street shuttle in NYC
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Singaporean telcos prepare for 3G shut down from August
M1's 3G network will be the first to go, Singtel and StarHub to follow
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Global Telco AI Alliance sign JV to establish multi-lingual LLM designed for telcos
Korean, English, German, Arabic, and Bahasa are among the languages
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Singtel and Telin partner for Singapore-Batam subsea cable
480 Tbps cable due live in 2026
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Singtel denies it is looking to sell Optus to Brookfield
Optus is still searching for a new CEO
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Singtel trims stake in Bharti Airtel with $710m sale to invest in data centers
Still holds a 29 percent stake in Bharti Airtel
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Global Telco AI Alliance to launch LLM JV later this year
The group plan to focus on developing Large Language Models (LLM)
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Singtel disputes Optus claims over outage
Optus was hit by a 14-hour outage last week
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KKR takes $800 million stake in Singtel's data center business
Investment firm takes 20 percent of business, option to increase to 25 percent
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Singtel breaks ground on 58MW data center in Singapore
Eight story facility due live in 2025
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Singaporean MNOs poised to fully retire 3G services by end of July 2024
The spectrum will be refarmed to 5G
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Singapore’s Singtel plans Johor data center in Malaysia
Telco looking to expand in neighboring state, according to local politician
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Singtel signs PPA with Sembcorp
Deal runs for 10 years, allows Singtel to join solar initiatives as they come online
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Singtel carves out infrastructure assets into single unit
Latest move in restructuring process
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Telkomsel agrees $3.9bn tie-up with IndiHome
Deal expected to be completed during third quarter
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Singtel and Telkom Indonesia break ground on data center in Batam
51MW facility to be operated by Telkom’s NeutraDC unit
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Singtel co-leads consortium on $300m undersea cable build
The Asia Link Cable System (ALC) has been targeted for completion by Q3 2025
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PT Telkom to merge fixed-line and mobile business in latest restructure
It follows similar restructures by other Asian telcos