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SINGAPORE – All four telcos here have applied for at least one of four 5G licences up for grabs by the close of the local regulator’s submission deadline on Monday (Feb 17), bringing Singapore one step closer to a future of driverless vehicles, cloud gaming on-the-go, and robot-run factory and ports.
Singapore’s largest telco Singtel and newcomer TPG Telecom submitted solo bids, while StarHub teamed up with M1 in a joint bid, said the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) on Monday evening.
“IMDA is currently evaluating the submissions, and we expect to award the spectrum by mid-2020,” the regulator said in a statement, referring to the airwave licences.
IMDA will assess, among other things, telcos’ network security design and ability to achieve 50 per cent islandwide coverage by end-2022.
The Straits Times understands that there is a three-way contest for the two licences to operate a nationwide 5G network, with analysts saying that such a licence is key to long-term survival.
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