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•	Recent developments

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SingTel offers new Bloomberg mobile service 26 May 2008 Singapore – SingTel has introduced Bloomberg’s new multi-faceted application for mobile devices exclusively available to SingTel postpaid mobile customers, marking the world’s first launch of the mobile service. The interactive service allows users to create a personalized portfolio to track the performance of shares and stock exchange indices from the suite of investment tools and services available. A currency conversion calculator using real-time exchange rates will also be available for the first time. The new features add to Bloomberg’s up-to-the-minute financial and world news, as well as stock quotes from major stock exchanges. Rich multimedia content including exclusive video-on-demand, podcasts and live TV streams are expected to be made available in the next three months. Following the Singapore launch, Bloomberg plans to extend the mobile service to territories across Southeast Asia and Greater China by the end of 2008, with further expansion planned for 2009.

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SingTel Launches mio TV on Mobile (Business News & Technology News, 23 May 2008)

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel) has launched its mio TV on Mobile service. SingTel is the first operator in Singapore and one of the first in Asia Pacific to launch a mobile TV client with true TV viewing experience on mobile phones.

Launched in July 2007, mio TV has revolutionised the way people watch TV. The new mio TV on Mobile service is said to provide Singtel's customers with yet another convenient medium to expand their viewing options.

"With Singapore's high mobile penetration rate and SingTel's customer base of over 2.5 million mobile users, it makes sense to offer compelling content on our mobile platform so that Singaporeans have access to their favorite mio TV content wherever they may be," says Wong Soon Nam, SingTel's Vice President of Consumer Marketing.

The application currently works on the following Nokia models—N76, N81, N82, N95, N95 8GB, 5700, 6110 Navigator, 6120 Classic, E51 and the N78, which will be available soon, using Nokia Siemens Networks' Mobile TV streaming solution. SingTel is currently in discussions with other mobile handset manufacturers to support the mio TV on Mobile service.

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Atlanta, 3 June 2008 — Today at the GSM Association (GSMA) Mobile Innovation Marketplace — Americas, Microsoft Corp. announced the Connected Services Accelerator Program, a series of projects designed to incubate, and ultimately commercialize, new types of consumer, business and mobile services through collaboration with independent software vendors (ISVs), developers and operators. Microsoft will collaborate with SingTel on the program’s first project, the Mobile Connected Services Accelerator. All Accelerator projects will utilize Microsoft Connected Services Sandbox as the platform for the creation, development and testing of these innovative new services.

Mobile Connected Services Accelerator

The objective of the Mobile Connected Services Accelerator is to develop a new, cutting-edge mobile application for a vertical industry, which can be supported on Windows Mobile-based devices as well as Windows Vista-enabled mobile broadband PCs. Examples of such applications include the collection of patient data in healthcare, telemetry and fleet-management solutions, real-time financial services, equipment and property management, and utilities management. SingTel will make its state-of-the-art infrastructure and resources available to participants for development and testing purposes.

To qualify, developers and ISVs must have annual revenues not exceeding $20 million (U.S.) and must not be owned by a publicly traded company or subsidiary, or mobile operator. Proposals will be evaluated according to a set of criteria that includes market potential, scalability, ease of use, ease of deployment, customer demand and originality.

“SingTel is excited to collaborate with Microsoft to accelerate the development of innovative mobile services that will transform the way we live, work and play,” said Bill Chang, Executive Vice President of Business at SingTel. “The Mobile Connected Services Accelerator is a global initiative that will complement the SingTel Partner Programme in driving innovation and helping to turn exciting ideas into reality. Participants may not only benefit from reduced development costs but also achieve faster time to market for their innovations.”

“Our mission for the industry is to drive the transition to Telco 2.0, a new era of communications where service providers are delivering hundreds if not thousands of new services,” said Martha Béjar, corporate vice president for the Communications Sector at Microsoft. “Building on our investments in the Sandbox development environment, the Connected Services Accelerator Program aims to build a truly global marketplace for service creation that, working with operators, will lead to the commercialization of a new wave of innovative services. We are working with SingTel on the first project, which has a mobile focus to tap into the huge potential we see for applications delivered to mobile devices including mobile-broadband PCs.”

The Mobile Connected Services Accelerator project will run from July 1 to Sept. 30, during which time Microsoft and SingTel will provide technical and commercial guidance to support the project team. The project will be entered into the GSMA’s Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition in the Most Innovative Mobile Application in a Vertical Market category, with the winner to be announced at the Mobile Asia Congress in Macau Nov. 18–20.

“The speed of Internet protocol innovation demands that mobile operators must continue to innovate to deliver compelling new services and remain competitive,” said Bill Gajda, chief commercial officer of the GSMA. “Microsoft’s initiatives are consistent with the objectives of the GSMA, formed specifically for the Mobile Innovation Market, which focuses on turning ideas into reality. We welcome the association of the Connected Services Accelerator Program to the GSMA’s Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition and hope to extend these efforts to a scalable program that will produce innovative services and applications for the broad mobile operator community.”

Financial results

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