{"id":1008349,"date":"2026-05-18T08:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008349"},"modified":"2026-05-18T08:19:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:49:57","slug":"singapore-telecom-regulator-suspends-review-of-m1-simba-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/18\/singapore-telecom-regulator-suspends-review-of-m1-simba-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore telecom regulator suspends review of M1, Simba merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Singapore&#8217;s Infocomm Media Development Authority said on Monday it has suspended its review of a merger between telecom companies Simba Telecom and Keppel&#8217;s M1. <\/p>\n<p>The regulator said in a statement that during the review it learnt that Simba could have \u200cbeen using \u2060radio frequency \u2060bands that it had not been assigned to provide mobile services. <\/p>\n<p>It said the merger could not proceed until its investigation into the radio frequency band use is concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Singapore&#8217;s Infocomm Media Development Authority said on Monday it has suspended its review of a merger between telecom companies Simba Telecom and Keppel&#8217;s M1. The regulator said in a statement that during the review it learnt that Simba could have \u200cbeen using \u2060radio frequency \u2060bands that it had not been assigned to provide mobile services. It said the merger could not proceed until its investigation into the radio frequency band use is concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008361,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008349\/revisions\/1008361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}