SINGAPORE TELECOMS: AN OVERVIEW

Nandini Vijayaraghavan and Umesh Desai

Chapter 20 in The Singapore Blue Chips:The Rewards & Risks of Investing in Singapore's Largest Corporates, 2017, pp 205-208 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Telephones were first introduced in Singapore in 1879 by Bennett Pell, manager of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, with a trial connection made between Raffles Square and Tanjong Pagar using a telegraph line. Pell also set up a 50-line exchange made up of manual switchboards in 1881, giving Singapore a head start. The city state, then a British colony, was the first in the East to have a telephone system, barely three years after Alexander Graham Bell patented his invention.

Keywords: Singapore; Blue Chips; Large Caps; Straits Times Index; STI; Temasek; Stock Performance; Stock Investment; Stock Return; Singapore Banks; DBS; UOB; OCBC; Singapore Real Estate; CapitaLand; SingTel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 G20 G30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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