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Explore Singapore's advanced telecommunications infrastructure, government regulations, and transition to a free market. Learn about the leading service providers, future roles of telecommunications, and Singapore's strive to be an info-communications hub. Discover how telecommunication services are shaping the country's knowledge-based economy.
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Singapore Telecommunications Jennifer Brown Eric Chevaleyre Jennifer Crabb
PoliticalSingapore • Lee Kuan Yew led Singapore into the era of modernism • …and created an authoritarian democracy
Social Singapore • Total Population: 3.87 millions • Literacy rate: 93% • Ethnic Distribution
Economic Environment • Excellent international trading links • Westerners see Singapore as a model of free-market economy… • It is rather a government-managed economy
Technological Infrastructure • Local Telephone • More than 1.85 million telephone lines • Penetration rate of 54 lines per 100 population, one of the highest in the region. • InternationalServices • Connected to over 226 countries • 71 Million International call minutes Source: IDA Industry Database
Technological Infrastructure • Mobile Communications Services • GSM 900 and GSM 1800 • Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) • Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) • 1.4 Million Mobile Subscribers • 45% Penetration Rate • Paging • Ml, ST SunPage, Hutchison & SingTel • 1.2 M subscribers, 37% penetration rate Source: IDA Industry Database
Technological Infrastructure • Public Internet Access • IASPs: • SingNet, Pacific Internet and CyberWay • Internet access via modem dial-up, ISDN, ADSL, cable modem and digital leased circuits. • Asia’s Internet Hub • Internet penetration is 27% Source: IDA Industry Database
Internet Initiative • The Singapore Infocomm21 Masterplan aims to develop Singapore into one of the top five Information Societies in the world. • Free access to low income families • IDA spending $25 million over next 3 years. • Launch of Singapore websites.
Main Service Providers • Service was a duopoly • Singapore Telecom (SingTel) • One of the leading operators in Asia. • StarHub • Partnership between Singapore Technologies Telemedia, Singapore Power, NTT and British Telecom.
Governmental Regulation • Telecommunications Authority of Singapore (TAS) • Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) • Current perspective of the IDA and its transition to a completely free market
IDA’s Transition to a Free Market • Introduction to full market competition in telecommunications starting April 1, 2000 • 2-Pronged licensing approach • Facilities-based operations • Services-based operations • Lift all direct and indirect foreign equity limits for all public telecommunications service licenses
Singapore strives to be leading info-communications hub in the Asia-Pacific • Continual investment in R&D for telecommunications • Foreign investment • Singapore Telecom (SingTel)
Future Roles of Telecommunications • Move towards a Knowledge-based economy • Telecommunications will be a integral part • Singapore government has identified 3 Strategies: • Education • Recruitment of international talent • Accessibility of knowledge anytime and anywhere
Web Links • Information Development Authority of Singapore • http://www.ida.gov.sg/ • Database of communication industry: • http://www.ida.gov.sg/tasweb/index.htm