SINGAPORE, May 30 (Xinhua) -- The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore imposed a fine of 400,000 Singapore dollars (320,000 U.S. dollars) on SingTel Mobile for service disruption in its 3G network on Sept. 6-7 last year, the authority said on Wednesday.
The penalty came after the authority found in investigation that SingTel Mobile "had not fulfilled its obligation to provide resilient mobile telephone services" under the authority's Service Resiliency Code, it said in a statement.
The disruption caused some of the subscribers in the central region of Singapore, including the shopping belt Orchard, to experience a total of 22 hours of intermittent difficulties in making and receiving calls.
They also had problems accessing text messages and mobile data via the 3G service network of SingTel.
However, the 2G services were not affected at the time.
Investigations showed that the service disruption was caused by a software glitch in the new switches that were being installed by the company in the central region to upgrade its network. It affected the normal routing of data packets in the network.
The Infocomm said it decided to impose the penalty because of the serious impact of the service disruption.
It was not satisfied with the company's efforts to identify the fault and restore the affected services quickly, saying that the carrier could have potentially shortened the duration of the disruption.
The Service Resiliency Code sets out the service standards and a penalty framework for service disruptions which result in widespread service difficulties. The Infocomm Development Authority may impose financial penalties of up to 1 million Singapore dollars (800,000 U.S. dollars) or 10 percent of the annual turnover of a licensee, whichever is higher.
NI star opens new 3G pitch in Castlecaulfield - tyronetimes.co.uk
THE opening of the new Castlecaulfield 3G pitch was the hottest event in the district last week with huge crowds of footballers and supporters descending on the normally quiet village.
The facility was officially opened by local Northern Ireland international Niall McGinn and the Mayor of Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council, Cllr Kenneth Reid, during a glorious evening of sunshine and high temperatures.
The event was attended by MLAs, Councillors, local Church leaders and huge numbers of the community that reflected the support for this project and event.
After the cutting of the ribbon, committee member Glenn Ferry welcomed everyone to the evening and asked the Mayor and Jayne Moore from Sport Northern Ireland to say a few words on the project, its impact and benefit for everyone in the local area.
Mayor Kenneth Reid said: “As a Council Dungannon and South Tyrone are delighted to have been associated with this project since its inception both in leasing lands for the 3G pitch and in awarding a grant of £15,000.
“The official opening was a showcase of Aughintober Regeneration Partnership’s dedication and hard work and was a fabulous evening for one and all. I congratulate everyone involved - this 3G pitch provides a state of the art sporting facility at Castlecaulfield and an excellent template for future development.”
Jayne Moore of Sport Northern Ireland added: “Our investment of £235,667 for this 3G synthetic pitch falls well within the Strategy for Sport. Sport Northern Ireland hopes this facility will plant the seeds for grass-roots development of sport, and encourage the local community to take part in sport, as well as nurturing a wealth of rising talent.
“It has been a pleasure to work with the Aughintober Regeneration Committee, in particular, I’d like to thank Ian Cuddy, Glenn Ferry, Dennis Kelly and Walter Cuddy. It has been a fruitful and enjoyable partnership and we have all delivered a high quality, and much needed facility for Castlecaulfield and surrounding district. The real hard work starts now in filling this excellent facility day and night and I would encourage everyone to give Aughintober Regeneration their support and custom.”
After the official opening, it was time to get the Charity tournament and entertainment underway.
With the tempting smell of burgers filling the air and families enjoying the face painting, chocolate, ice cream and a full range of children activities, the scene was set for a night of high drama.
With over 50 teams, 82 matches, spread over seven pitches, it was a busy evening for the organisers but after two and half hours of some excellent football, the ‘Goal Getters’ finished up as champions, defeating ‘Goat Storm’ in a tense, sudden death penalty shoot out.
Local club side ‘Dungannon Tigers’ triumphed in the plate competition by defeating the ‘Toon Army’ in the final and ‘Fake Madrid’ tasted victory in the junior competition after a busy playing schedule on Pitch 1.
Aughintober Regeneration Chairman, Ian Cuddy, concluded: “The support we have received for our opening and charity tournament has been very humbling for us in Aughintober Regeneration with a long list of people and businesses giving freely of their time and resources. To see over 500 people enjoying a night of football and friendship in the village is what this project is all about and to raise some funds for the Alzheimer’s Society and the local hospice is an added bonus.”
He continued: “I would like to thank Sport NI, our local Council, the committee and members of Aughintober Regeneration, players, referees, supporters and all those who came along on the night to make the event a real success.”
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Print this pageOnly court can alter 3G deals with CAT, says True - Nation - Thailand
True Corp said yesterday that only the court could order a change to its 3G partnership contracts with CAT Telecom.
But True welcomes bilateral talks with CAT to seek a way out of the problems related to the deals.
True has asserted that the contracts are legal.
Adhiruth Thothaveesansuk, managing director for mobile business of True Corp, said the CAT-True contracts were partnership agreements. If anyone wants to change them, it can only be done by way of a court decision.
"We've operated the service under the partnership with CAT. By principle, the contractual parties have to collaborate to provide the service. If one of the contractual parties has done anything that obstructs the service provisioning, this might be regarded as breaching the contract, which could hurt both parties. Now we're continuing the business as usual and more customers are still signing up with us," Adhiruth said.
The service is operated by Real Move under the TrueMove H brand.
CAT and True are in talks to seek a resolution to these problems, so both sides have to wait for the result, which is expected soon, he said.
According to CAT, one of its proposals is to buy back the third-generation cellular networks from BFKT.
Last week the Information and Communications Technology Minis-try asked CAT to suspend any activities related to the 3G service under the True Corp partnership, pending the completion of the probe of the deals by authorities. CAT and True's subsidiaries Real Move and Real Future signed the deals in January last year.
Real Move has yet to receive any order from CAT to suspend the service, Adhiruth said.
Real Move has 1.7 million customers. It aims to have 13,500 3G base stations set up this year. It has installed 5,500 already, which should increase to 7,000 next month.
He said TrueMove had also informed CAT that it would discontinue the 3G service trial and would have its 3G customers roam with Real Move afterwards. Both Real Move and TrueMove are True's cellular flagships.
Under the deals signed early last year, CAT, Real Future and Real Move were to collaborate to provide the 3G service on the 850-megahertz spectrum. CAT has procured 3G-HSPA (high-speed packet access) equipment from Real Future's BFKT (Thailand) to generate 3G bandwidth capacity for wholesale and resale. CAT has agreed to use its 850MHz spectrum only with BFKT HSPA equipment. CAT has also wholesaled 3G bandwidth to Real Move.
The deals have attracted scrutiny by authorities over their legality.
The Senate anti-corruption committee was the first to conclude this February that parts of the deals might violate the law. It found that CAT's agreement to allow BFKT (Thailand) to procure telecom towers and signal systems on its behalf to generate 3G bandwidth, and CAT's apparent granting of authority to BFKT to manage the 850MHz spectrum on its behalf, might contravene Article 46 (2) of the frequency law.
The committee also took the view that BFKT, which is part of the True Group, breached Article 45 of the Frequency Allocation Law as it does not have a business licence to provide this network rental service. The committee had sent its report to the National Anti-Corruption Commis-sion (NACC).
In March, the ICT Ministry's committee tasked with probing the deals' legality came up with five irregularities in the ways the deals were made. It also sent its findings to the NACC for further investigation. The NACC committee that also separately probed the case on its own concluded this month that some state officials involved in the deals had been negligent.
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