by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Telecom, Media & Data Infrastructure
⚡ TL;DRSingapore’s media sector combines a state-owned broadcaster, a newspaper group restructured into a not-for-profit entity receiving public funding, and a regulatory framework that includes licensing, content rules and a law against online falsehoods....
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Telecom, Media & Data Infrastructure
⚡ TL;DRSingapore is one of the world’s most important submarine cable landing points, with dozens of international cables terminating there and plans to substantially expand landing capacity. That physical connectivity is the reason the country hosts data...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Telecom, Media & Data Infrastructure
⚡ TL;DRSingapore paused new data centre approvals in 2019 because the sector was consuming an unsustainable share of national electricity in a country with no domestic energy resources. The pause was lifted in 2022 with a capacity allocation process, and a...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Telecom, Media & Data Infrastructure
⚡ TL;DRSingapore’s telecommunications market moved from a state monopoly to full competition in stages, with three main mobile operators, a fourth entrant, numerous virtual operators and a structurally separated national fibre network owned by a listed...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Telecom, Media & Data Infrastructure
⚡ TL;DRSingtel was corporatised from Singapore’s state telephone authority in 1992 and listed the following year in an offering designed to give ordinary Singaporeans shares. It grew into a regional group holding Australia’s Optus and large stakes in...
