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August 7th, 2014 | by
Alfred Siew It underlines the popularity of one of the infocomm industry's hottest - and most hyped up - areas...
June 17th, 2014 | by
Alfred Siew Singapore is starting early, which is a good thing. It just has to expect issues that have no ready...
June 5th, 2014 | by
Alfred Siew Why SingPass hasn't been beefed up remains a mystery. As a result, it has become an easy target all these years and now users have to face up to the...
May 3rd, 2014 | by
Alfred Siew Ask any Singapore cellphone user if he is happy these days and chances are you will hear a litany of complaints. From frequent network outages to higher 4G prices, users here have had to contend with a frustrating experience when...
April 24th, 2014 | by
Alfred Siew As StarHub has learnt, it may not be so smart to take the lead in raising...
April 22nd, 2014 | by
Alfred Siew But this won't be the first time that Singapore has welcomed such...
April 17th, 2014 | by
Alfred Siew It's not that consumers are daft, for not reading the fine print. They just don't expect the cellphone market to be less competitive over time....
February 28th, 2014 | by
Alfred Siew SingTel has clarified that it has no plans for now to charge consumers separately for using the WhatsApp service, as well as for other so-called over-the-top services that make use of the Internet connection it...
January 24th, 2014 | by
Alfred Siew While SingTel and StarHub users will be happy that the two operators passed, M1 subscribers may start asking why the "orange" operator is once again the worst...
December 31st, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew There are so many ways to look back at some of the technology and media news headlines in 2013, but perhaps the most practical one is to see how things can improve in the new year. From the controversial last-minute changes to...
December 26th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew Make no mistake, come January 2, 2014, spam will still be a problem for phone...
November 20th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew OpenNet has been fined a hefty S$750,000 after failing to connect up homes and offices to the national fibre broadband network, as well as not "turning on" a service promptly enough when users sign up for...
November 12th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew What's lacking are the battle-hardened code warriors, the experienced network engineers who begin their careers doing the boring stuff like administering a Windows...
November 5th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew So, in the end, it was an internal problem that caused the alarming shutdown of 19 Singapore government websites on...
November 3rd, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew While there is speculation on why and how the sites could have been down, one thing is clear - this maintenance caused the sites to go down longer than...
October 26th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew The answer should be pretty straightforward for users, but Singapore's industry players are not helping by pointing...
October 8th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew By allowing telcos to decide what to do with their hotspots, the government regulator risks undoing what Wireless@SG brought all these years ago –...
October 3rd, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew In causing an outage that lasted several days, the telco had not fulfilled its obligation to provide resilient mobile telephone services, said the government regulator today, as it meted out the country's heaviest punishment to...
June 28th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew Whether this will translate to better services, of course, still depends on how well telcos run their networks and take advantage of the additional...
April 18th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew This means home owners won't have to arrange for their property to be wired up separately by national contractor Opennet, the source of irritation for many new fibre broadband...