News

• SingTel reports stable Optus full-year results

  SingTel has reported that its Australian subsidiary, Optus, has achieved an operating revenue of $9.37 billion, up 1 per cent, and an EBITDA of $2.36 billion, up 2 per cent for the full year to 31 March 2012. Net profit for the year was up 2 per cent to $787 million.

• Optus's O'Sullivan gets SingTel role

  Optus chief executive, Paul O'Sullivan, has been given a wider brief as part of a restructure of parent company Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel).

• Singtel, Optus announce mobile advertising push

  Optus and parent company Singtel will make a major push into the mobile advertising market following a company-wide restructure and $US321 acquisition of mobile marketing company Amobee.

• TV Now case a win in more ways than one: Optus

  Despite attempts by the National Rugby League (NRL) and Australian Football League (AFL) to quash Optus’ TV Now service, the legal case has instead had a positive effect, according to Optus chief, Paul O’Sullivan.

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  Paul O’Sullivan looks back at 20 years of Optus

  It was 20 years ago on November 19, 1991, when Optus was granted its carrier licence. Since then, the telecommunications company has survived many ups and downs.

• Optus grows its mobile base

  Optus has grown its mobile customer base to 9.23 million as at 30 September 2011, up 131,000 or four per cent year on year.

• Optus parent SingTel ups stake in AIS

  Optus parent SingTel Limited (ASX:SGT) plans to pay up to S$328 million ($249.5 million) to increase its holding in Thai telecom operator AIS.

• Optus, SingTel sign $2.58b in credit facilities

  Optus and parent company SingTel (ASX:SGT) have together secured credit facilities with international banks totalling S$3.7 billion ($2.58 billion).

• SingTel prices $600m in 10.5 year notes

  Optus parent SingTel (ASX:SGT) has announced it has priced $US600 million ($593.5 million) worth of medium-term notes in a thoroughly oversubscribed issue.

• Optus reports slight profit, 88,000 new customers

  Optus ended the December quarter around 8.9 million mobile subscribers, according to parent company SingTel (ASX:SGT).

• Ericsson demonstrates HSPA at 168M bps

  Ericsson has demonstrated HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) with download speeds up to 168M bps (bits per second) and 24M bps on the uplink, the company said on Monday.

• Half of Optus customers on 3G

  Optus' mobile customer base grew eight per cent sequentially in the September quarter, parent company SingTel (ASX:SGT) has revealed.

• Optus cloud features scant but evolving

  Optus’ first foray into the private cloud market will provide another option in a continually sparse landscape, but the telco has admitted the offering remains in its infancy.

• SingTel appoints Int'l CEO, Optus peer

  Singaporean telco giant, SingTel (ASX:SGT), has appointed the chief operating officer of its Thai subsidiary Advanced Info Services (AIS) as the telco group’s chief executive of international.

• Optus ready for Telstra's new direction

  Optus has posted its strongest quarterly earnings growth in five years as it continues to attract mobile customers away from its competitors.