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In Singapore, there are 11,512,900 broadband Internet subscribers (as of February 2015). There are three major Internet service providers in Singapore, namely, Singtel,
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, and M1 and other growing providers like
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and ViewQwest. Over the years, the Singapore Government has been promoting the usage of broadband Internet access, as part of its Intelligent Nation 2015 (iN2015) and Smart Nation initiative. Internet access is readily available in Singapore, with a connectivity rate of over 99%. Surveys have also indicated a significant emotional connectedness between Singaporeans with their internet access. In August 2018,
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's tests determined that Singapore's broadband speed of 181.47 Mbit/s is the highest in the world.


History

Before the Internet, Singapore was the first country in the world to launch an interactive information service to the public. A service known as Teleview was jointly developed by Telecom Authority of Singapore (TAS) and GEC-Marconi of the UK. The service was setup as a public service and started trials during late 1987 using specifically designed terminals. This was expanded in 1989, and eventually, as Personal Computers became more capable, there was a software/hardware addition made available for the PC. Early service providers for editorials were
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, Housing Development Board and Singapore Stock Exchange, which provided a range of services, including general news, business news, housing lots and selection lists, real-time stocks and shares prices. Subscribers connected to the Teleview service by SingTel, via a dialup connection. Pages with images were sent to the terminal by Full Field Teletext transmissions from dedicated data inserters/UHF TV Transmitters. Initially, there were no service charges for the Teleview service but service charges were levied later on. A later development from Teleview provided an interfaced connection to the Internet. Subscribers were given access to the Internet via a text-only
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; email was accessed by Pine, and webpages were viewed by
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. Teleview eventually became obsolete with SingNet offering access to the Internet via SLIP/PPP over modem. In a government-led initiative to connect the island in a high-speed broadband network using various mediums such as fibre, DSL and cable, the
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project was formally announced in June 1996, and commercially launched in June 1998. By December 1998, Singapore ONE is available nationwide with the completion of the national fibre optics network. In 1997, commercial trials for
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' (Singtel) ADSL-based "SingTel Magix" service were undertaken in March, before being launched in June. Also in June, Singapore Cable Vision commenced trials for its
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based services, before being commercially deployed in December 1999. Singtel's ADSL service was subsequently rolled out on a nationwide scale in August 2000. In January 2001, the Broadband Media Association was formed to promote the broadband industry. By April the same year there were six broadband Internet providers, with the total number of broadband users exceeding 300,000.
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introduced wireless broadband services in October 2001. In December 2006,
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(IDA) introduced a programme named "
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". It is part of its Next Generation National Infocomm Infrastructure initiative. It offers everyone free wireless access in high human-traffic areas, including the Central Business District, downtown shopping belts like Orchard Road, and residential town centres. As at June 2007, there are more than 460,000 subscribers and 4,200 hotspots under the
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programme. By April 2013 the access speed had increased to 2 Mbit/s in April 2013.The free service was planned to continue until 31 March 2017. In early September 2010, internet service providers in Singapore rolled out the
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(Next Gen NBN) service plans. The Next Gen NBN is Singapore's nationwide ultra-high speed fibre network. It offered broadband speeds of up to 1
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at comparable prices to ADSL and cable connection. Deployed 75% nationwide as of August 2011, Next Gen NBN is on track to achieve its target of 95 per cent coverage by mid-2012.


Dial-up access

Access to the Internet via Teleview-SingNet evolved to a full-fledged dial-up service known as
SingNet Singapore Telecommunications Limited, commonly known as Singtel, is a Singaporean telecommunications conglomerate and one of the four major telcos operating in the country. The company is the largest mobile network operator in Singapore with ...
, a subsidiary of SingTel. The formerly-private TechNet network was purchased by
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. A third ISP was Cyberway; it was eventually purchased by
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on 21 January 1999.


Broadband access

In a government-led initiative to connect the island in a high-speed broadband network using various mediums such as fibre, DSL and cable, the
Singapore ONE Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country, island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Pen ...
project was formally announced in June 1996, and commercially launched in June 1998. By December 1998, Singapore ONE is available nationwide with the completion of the national fibre optics network. In 1997, commercial trials for SingTel ATM-based "SingTel Magix" service were undertaken in March, before being launched in June. Also in June, Singapore Cable Vision commenced trials for its
cable modem A cable modem is a type of network bridge that provides bi-directional data communication via radio frequency channels on a hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC), radio frequency over glass (RFoG) and coaxial cable infrastructure. Cable modems are primar ...
based services, before being commercially deployed in December 1999. Singtel's ADSL service was subsequently rolled out on a nationwide scale in August 2000. In 2006, M1 introduced its broadband services. In November 2014, ViewQwest unveiled plans for a 2 Gbit/s fibre broadband service for households in Singapore, offering the country's fastest internet connection in the market. In March 2015, the service was officially launched making it the world's fastest home broadband plan alongside Japan. Cable and ADSL services were withdrawn permanently in June 2016, with existing customers slowly being phased out. Singtel has announced complete shutdown and transfer of its ADSL customers by April 2018. StarHub has announced complete shutdown of cable customers by June 2019. In August 2016, Colt launched dedicated bandwidth, business-grade internet services for enterprises in Singapore. In August 2018, Singapore's broadband speed of 181.47 Mbit/s was ranked the highest in the world.


Censorship

In Singapore, Internet services provided by the three major Internet service providers are subject to regulation by the Media Development Authority (MDA) to block a "symbolic" number of websites containing "mass impact objectionable" material, including
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and
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.


ISPs


Optical fibre broadband providers


Networking company

* NetLink Trust (Formerly OpenNet) (Passive Infrastructure Company ; NetCo ; Wholesale)


Operating company

* Nucleus Connect (Active Infrastructure Company ; OpCo ; Wholesale)


Retail service providers

* M1 * Singtel *
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*
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* ViewQwest * WhizComms


Wireless@SG (Wi-Fi) operators

Free access; Minimally 5 Mbit/s * M1 * Singtel *
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Mobile broadband providers

3G/4G LTE Network * MNOs: ** Singtel (includes sub-brand GOMO) **
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(includes sub-brand Giga!) ** M1 ** SIMBA (formerly TPG Telecom) *
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s: ** Circles.Life (on M1's network) **Zero1 (on Singtel's network) **
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(on StarHub's network, on M1's network from 1 Apr 2020) ** redOne (on StarHub's network) ** VIVIFI (on Singtel's network) ** geenet mobile (on M1's network) **
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SG (on Singtel's network) *
Changi Mobile
(on M1's network)


IXPs

There are currently multiple Internet Exchange Points available in Singapore, * Singapore Internet Exchange * Singapore Open Exchange * Equinix Internet Peering Exchange


References


External links


IDA SingaporeNext Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN)Wireless@SG
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