We know what you’re thinking: “TPG Telecom, who?”
Welcome your new mobile overlords operators. The
Australian telecommunications company has won the rights to become
Singapore’s fourth telco with their winning bid of S$105
million for the spectrum on offer.
They'll be provisionally awarded 60GHz of the spectrum
band - 20MHz in the 900MHZ band and 40MHz in the 2.3GHz band - to
provide street level 4G services within the 18 months, and road
tunnels and in-building coverage within 30 months of the spectrum
rights going live.
The news has
largely been met with disappointment; it seems like the majority of
the population has been rooting for the better known MyRepublic and
their highly
public promise of unlimited data for S$60 a month. But as Trump
winning the US presidency has taught us, we just can't have nice
things.
In case you were wondering, MyRepublic came in narrowly
behind with its bid of S$102.5 million. It really is unfortunate
that we’ll never get to see if the outspoken local broadband
company would disrupt the status quo by fulfilling their promise.
Who knows though, TPG Telecom might surprise us with even better
options come April 2017 when the spectrum rights kick in.
We live in hope. In the meantime, get familiar with TPG
Telecom's logo, you'll be seeing a lot of it next year.
Source: Channel
NewsAsia
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