And Singapore's next telco is...TPG Telecom

It will now lock horns in a spectrum auction against Singtel, StarHub, and M1.

The spotlight now shines on TPG Telecom after it beat MyRepublic in the bid to become Singapore's next telco.

The Info-communications Media Development announced that TPG made the winning $105m bid in the New Entrant Spectrum Auction. It will be allocated 60MHz spectrum made available in NESA, comprising 20 MHz in the 900 MHz spectrum band and 40 MHz in the 2.3 GHz spectrum band to provide International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) and IMT-Advanced services(e.g. 4G services).

The new spectrum rights are expected to commence on 1 April 2017.

"TPG will be required to utilise the allocated spectrum to provide nationwide street level coverage for 4G within 18 months from the start of the new spectrum rights; road tunnels and in-building service coverage within 30 months from the start of the new spectrum rights; and coverage for MRT underground stations/lines within 54 months from the start of the new spectrum rights," IMDA said in a statement.

TPG will then lock horns with M1, Singtel, and StarHub in the General Spectrum Auction, which will commence in the first quarter next year.

Reaching the people who run Asia's businesses is harder than it used to be.

Inboxes are crowded. Attention is short. The executives you most want to reach — the founders, CFOs, and operators who actually move budgets — are the hardest to find through the usual channels. If you're building a company, a category, or a reputation, you already know this.

We've spent twenty years building the room they read. Singapore Business Review is where senior decision makers in Singapore and across Southeast Asia come for business coverage they can't get elsewhere — in print, online, and in person at the summits and roundtables we host across seven markets.

If you have something these readers should know about — a point of view worth publishing, a product worth their attention, an event worth their time — we'd like to hear what you're trying to do.

Book a meeting

| Or download the media kit (PDF)

240,000 senior readers quarterly in print Top 1,700 Singapore companies reached

7 markets across Southeast Asia