Whois & Analysis for singtel.com

Singapore Telecommunications Limited, commonly abbreviated as Singtel, and previously stylised as SingTel is a Singaporean telecommunications company, with a combined mobile subscriber base of over 600 million customers in 25 countries at end of July, 2016, making it one of the largest mobile network operators in Singapore and the 20–30 largest in the world.

Fiber to the x (FTTX) is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to provide all or part of the local loop used for last mile telecommunications.

As fiber optic cables are able to carry much more data than copper cables, especially over long distances, copper telephone networks built in the 20th century are being replaced by fiber.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is an extended term for information technology (IT) which stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals), computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information.

Internet television (or online television) is the digital distribution of television content, such as TV shows, via the public Internet (which also carries other types of data), as opposed to dedicated terrestrial television via an over-the-air aerial system, cable television, and/or satellite television systems.

It is sometimes called web television, though this phrase is also used to describe the genre of TV shows broadcast only online.

Telecommunication is the transmission of signs, signals, messages, writings, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems.

Telecommunication occurs when the exchange of information between communication participants includes the use of technology.

It is transmitted either electrically over physical media, such as cables, or via electromagnetic radiation.

Such transmission paths are often divided into communication channels which afford the advantages of multiplexing.

The term is often used in its plural form, telecommunications, because it involves many different technologies.