1. Introduction and Background
January 2000 marked a new chapter in the history of Singapore’s telecommunication services sector when Singapore Government announced the full liberalisation of the telecommunications industry. Prior to January 2000, only Singapore Telecommunications Ltd ("SingTel") and StarHub Pte Ltd ("StarHub") were granted the Public Basic Telecommunications Services licenses to provide public switched telephone network services and Singapore Telecom Mobile Pte Ltd ("SingTel Mobile"), StarHub Mobile Pte Ltd ("StarHub Mobile") and MobileOne (Asia) Pte Ltd ("MobileOne") were granted Public Cellular Mobile Telecommunications Services licenses to provide mobile telecommunication services.
