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M1 Singapore |
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MI or Mobile One is a popular telecommunications company in Singapore. It offers full range of mobile and data communication services. Our site focussingapore offers detailed information about M1 in Singapore. M1 was launched in April 1997. StarHub and Singapore Telecommunications are the other two popular telecommunications company in Singapore. Mobile One is ranked as the third mobile operator of the nation.
Presently it is the smallest mobile operator and has the lowest number of subscribers. The founding shareholders of Mobile One are Keppel Telecoms, SPH Multimedia and Telekom Malaysia.
M1 is a leading telecommunication service provider in Singapore. The company launched its services in 1997 and its original name was MobileOne. The company is ranked among the top three telecommunications companies in Singapore.
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In fact, it occupies the second position in the list after SingTel, which is the largest in the state. The company offers comprehensive communication solutions to its clients through mobile, data and Internet connections.
In 2009, the company earned total revenue of SG$ 781.6 million. It is a part of the Vodafone mobile community and offers Vodafone services in Singapore.Keppel Telecoms enjoys 16.25% of the share while the percentage of SPH Multimedia counts to be 13.97%. Along with Telekom Malaysia the three shareholders jointly owns 60.01% shares of M1.
Some important facts about the company
Following are some interesting facts about M1 Limited:
- Karen Kooi Lee Wah is the current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company
- They cater to over 2 million customers in the country
- In 2005, the company launched its 3G services with video calling plans which was the first in Singapore
- In 2002, the company went public
- In 2002, the company also became the first to introduce MMS services in Singapore
- It was the first to offer prepaid direct dialing services to customers
- The company offered Asia’s first wireless image searching facilities in collaboration with Google
- It is the only prepaid service provider in the country with free incoming facilities
- In 2009, it introduced the first mobile broadband services in Singapore on prepaid connections
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The owners of rest of the shares are institutional and public investors. The customers using M1 mobile communications also gets international call services available in both mobile and fixed lines. These comprises of SMS, MMS, WAP, GPRS and 3G it is a recent addition. The company also provides pre-paid services under its M Card brand. In the year 1997 M1 first started to offer GSM services and the company also introduced CDMA as the second mobile network in 1998. Being the official Singaporean partner of the Vodafone mobile community it offers the customers products of Vodafone.
Choose your favorite number
It is a service provided by M1 that allows customers choose their favorite mobile number. Customers can participate in the number auction and bid for their favorite number. In their website one can also reserve the favorite number and approach to their distributors to get a new connection.
M1 multi-line saver plan
In a process to upgrade its schemes to let users get more benefits from their services, M1 has introduced M1 multi-line saver plan which will let the consumers enjoy upto 35% discounts by combining all their M1 lines together. Given below are the tariff plans for this scheme:
- For 3 M1 connections in the household, the consumer can get 25% discount
- For 4 such lines, the discount percentage will go up to 30%.
- For 5 such connections and more, the discount rate is 35%.
- All these discounts are available on M1 mobiles, home broadband and mobile broadband connections.
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