Singapore telecoms operators select Nokia, Ericsson to build 5G networks

[striver44]

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 7:54 a.m. EDT by Thomson Reuters

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Nokia is seen before the company's news conference in Espoo, Finland March 2, 2020. Lehtikuva/Markku Ulander via REU
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Telecoms operators in Singapore said they had selected Nokia and Ericsson to build infrastructure for new 5G networks.

A joint venture between M1 and Starhub awarded one of the city-state's licences said they had selected Nokia to build the radio access network and that the Finnish company was the preferred supplier for the core and mmWave networks.

The companies said they were also exploring other network parts with China's Huawei [HWT.UL] and ZTE.

In a separate statement, the other licensee, Singtel, said it had selected Ericsson to negotiate the provision of ran, core and mmWave networks.

Unlike the upgrades of cellular standards such as 2G in the early 1990s, 3G around the millennium and 4G in 2010, 5G standards will deliver not just faster phone and computer data but also help connect cars, machines, cargo and crop equipment.

(Reporting by John Geddie, editing by Louise Heavens)

https://wincountry.com/news/article...5g-networks/1032652/?refer-section=technology

 

[rott]

@sinait @Han Patriot Is this true?

 

[Song Hong]

A very bad idea.

Singtel is a lousy and rotting company.

https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/singtel-and-starhub-m1-consortium-finalise-vendors-for-5g-coverage

 

[Viva_Viet]

Huawei.... Huhu..

No one support CN in trade war

 

[sinait]

@sinait @Han Patriot Is this true?

Not sure, hopefully not.
But not surprised if true, tiny Singapore is vulnerable to extortion by the US.
We are still dependent on them, for trade and defence.
From the unscrupulous extreme pressure exerted on the UK, I can imagine the same if not more for Singapore.
Hopefully it would not jeopardize our relations with China.
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[Mista]

@sinait @Han Patriot Is this true?

Yes.

https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/singtel-and-starhub-m1-consortium-finalise-vendors-for-5g-coverage

https://www.zaobao.com.sg/realtime/singapore/story20200624-1063709

 

[Song Hong]

Singapore reputation as a clean and transparent country is overrated. Singtel is buying a lousy product and paying high price, keeping the expensive, lazy and stupid white engineers employed.

Putting specs and price side by side, Huawei will win hands down.

Stupid Singapore.

 

[ILC]

Singapore is a US lapdog like Poland so idk what you expected. Maybe not like Poland, but it has close relations. Poland is über lapdog, we do what the USA says and even more.

 

[striver44]

wow so much hate against Singapore, she's just doing what's best for her own. Huawei poses a security threat.

 

[Song Hong]

In Vietnam my monthly mobile LTE expenditure is 4 USD a month at Viettel, daily data limit is 2GB.

The monthly LTE tarrif in China is very low last time I visited (good datarate, good data plan, good reliability on China mobile network, forget the plan exactly).

When I visited Singapore for a short stay, I paid a fcuking 37USD a month for 5GB LTE data per month.

Obviously Singapore government is robbing the people to subsidized white man and the corrupt state-linked telcos.

 

[Mista]

Singapore is a US lapdog like Poland so idk what you expected. Maybe not like Poland, but it has close relations. Poland is über lapdog, we do what the USA says and even more.

wow so much hate against Singapore, she's just doing what's best for her own. Huawei poses a security threat.

Lol it's an open tender and Huawei wasn't excluded.

But I guess Huawei must win in an open tender, otherwise we must be a lapdog of the US lmao.

 

[Song Hong]

On observation on the street, people in Vietnam and China are using mobile phone to see movie.

In Singapore, not so much people are doing so.

It means first world Singapore data plan is much expensive than 3rd world Vietnam, and poor Vietnamese having low salary can enjoy mobile youtube.

 

[striver44]

Lol it's an open tender and Huawei wasn't excluded.

But I guess Huawei must win in an open tender, otherwise we must be a lapdog of the US lmao.

win or loose we shouldn't call other countries lapd*g, or stupid....just because they chose other choices that is not in our personal favor.

 

[Viva_Viet]

win or loose we shouldn't call other countries lapd*g, or stupid....just because they chose other choices that is not in our personal favor.

Meanwhile, our pathetic friend @Daniel808 try to convince ppl here that EU use Huawei 5G wt 62 %proportion
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/germani-and-italian-people-want-eu-to-move-closer-to-china.672811/

 

[Song Hong]

Every veteren in communication industries knows that Singtel executives are the most stupid and unrespectable.

They are very bias to Ericsson for mobile network, and Huawei is a big plague to be avoided, other than some small projects.

They likely use clauses like integrating over legacy 4G network (a lot of Ericsson) to kick Huawei. While I have no doubt Huawei can overcome, integrating it technically and in term of pricing, Singtel should be using some dirty business clause to prohibit Huawei.