Singtel

Singapore Telecommunications Limited, or Singtel, and stylized as SingTel, is a Singaporean telecommunications company and one of the country's four major telcos. With 4.1 million users, the firm is Singapore's largest mobile network provider, with a combined mobile subscriber base of 640 million people at the end of the financial year 2017. Telecommunications Equipment was the company's name until 1995. Singtel offers Internet service, IPTV (Singtel TV), mobile phone networks, and fixed-line telephony.

Singtel has actively grown outside of its home market, owning stakes in a number of regional carriers, including complete ownership of Optus, Australia's second-largest telecom, and 32.15 percent of Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest provider.

With 82 percent of the fixed-line market, 47 percent of the mobile market, and 43 percent of the broadband market in Singapore, Singtel has a considerable market share in both Australia and Singapore. Singtel is also the second-largest company on the Singapore Exchange by market capitalization[10] and is majority-owned by Temasek Holdings, the Singapore government's investment arm. Singtel's Singtel Innov8 subsidiary, which was created in 2011 with a S$200 million start-up capital, is an active investor in innovative firms.

Founded: 1879

Country: Singapore

Market Cap: $29.71 billion

Website: singtel.com