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March 15th, 2013 | by
Raymond Lau SingTel is going to lead a pilot project to explore ways to telecommute and have flexible work arrangements, with the hopes of drawing an estimated 326,000 “economically inactive” Singaporeans back into the workforce....
March 10th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew This comes at a good time, as cellphone networks are so often jammed up today, while users have to pay more to surf more on those...
January 18th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew M1 is giving its cellphone customers three days of free local calls, messages and data services from February 10 to 12, as it tries to assuage users aggrieved by one of Singapore's most serious mobile network...
January 17th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew As dependence on the mobile network grows, its reliability has to improve as well. Surely, it has to be better than what M1 has shown this week, when you're lucky just to be able to make a call in some parts of the...
December 6th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew Singapore's cellphone operators have fallen short in providing outdoor 3G coverage, particularly in housing estates, at outdoor recreation areas and along train routes above ground, tests by the government regulator have...
September 21st, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew SingTel is being fined S$300,000 for disruptions to its mio Voice home phone service late last year, as the infocomm regulator meted out the latest penalty to a telecom operator here for below-par...
August 21st, 2012 | by
Chan Chi-Loong The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore believes nine IT themes will impact Singapore and the world in its recently released Information Technology Roadmap...
August 4th, 2012 | by
Raymond Lau Years after mobile payment was first mooted as a new way to pay for things, Singapore users will finally be able pay for taxi and train rides and shopping items by simply tapping their phones on any of the 30,000 retail points...
July 4th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew The IDA, however, has not included any possible penalties should Opennet be found responsible for poor connections or failed connections which could cause delays for users or result in additional on-site support for service...
May 30th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew The IDA today meted out its heaviest fine yet to a telecom operator here, citing the seriousness of SingTel's downtime, which affected thousands of users in the central region of the island....
May 28th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew It was meant to be the one set-top box you need at home, to tune in to TV channels on SingTel, StarHub, M1 and possibly any new pay-TV operator that would come to Singapore. But instead of being the one box to rule them all,...
April 24th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew After years of complaining about slow connections, Singapore's broadband users can now join a study that uses their actual day-to-day experience to offer a clear snapshot of just how fast their Internet service...
April 18th, 2012 | by
Raymond Lau They are looking for 10 software engineers to undertake a traineeship programme in mobile app design and...
April 5th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew Compliance labels that stick out like a sore thumb on your shiny new gadgets could become a thing of the past in Singapore, after the government infocomm regulator said on Wednesday that it is allowing electronic versions that...
February 28th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew The fibre optic cable may have reached your home, but when you try signing up for one of those speedy fibre broadband services that your friends have been talking about, you are told to wait up several weeks or even months for...
January 30th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew Cellphone users in Singapore can expect extended coverage in buildings, on roads and when travelling in an MRT train underground, when stricter rules on 3G coverage unveiled today by the government regulator kick in as soon as...
November 14th, 2011 | by
Alfred Siew M1 is facing one of the stiffest fines meted out to a telecom operator in Singapore in years, after faulty hardware cards caused some of its users to be locked out from their messages and mobile Internet services on May 18 this...
October 25th, 2011 | by
Alfred Siew As the city-state's infocomm regulator and its industry partners embark on an ambitious S$40 million project, unveiled today, to let mobile phone users here tap and pay with their phones, they could perhaps learn a lesson or two...
May 11th, 2011 | by
Alfred Siew Opening the event this year is the assistant chief executive officer of the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), Khoong Hock Yun. The rest of the afternoon will see panelists from SingTel, StarHub, Motorola, Nokia, HP and many...
April 21st, 2011 | by
Raymond Lau Singapore and Malaysia have inked a deal which reduces the cost of mobile roaming by up to 30 percent for voice calls and 50 percent for text messages (SMS). Travellers will start reaping the cost savings, which apply to all...
