{"id":1028530,"date":"2026-08-13T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028530"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:43:11","slug":"singtels-quarterly-profit-beats-estimates-on-stronger-associate-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/13\/singtels-quarterly-profit-beats-estimates-on-stronger-associate-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"Singtel&#8217;s quarterly profit beats estimates on stronger associate contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) reported a 21% rise in first-quarter underlying net profit on Thursday, \u200cas stronger \u2060contributions \u2060from its regional associates offset weaker performance in its domestic operations. <\/p>\n<p>Post-tax contributions \u200bfrom regional associates rose 16.1% to S$543 million, primarily supported \u200bby bigger gains \u2060from India&#8217;s Bharti \u200cAirtel and Thailand&#8217;s \u200bAdvanced \u200bInfo Service (AIS). <\/p>\n<p>That helped offset a \u20603.1% decline in operating revenue \u200bat Singtel Singapore, which was weighed \u200bdown by continuing price competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) reported a 21% rise in first-quarter underlying net profit on Thursday, \u200cas stronger \u2060contributions \u2060from its regional associates offset weaker performance in its domestic operations. Post-tax contributions \u200bfrom regional associates rose 16.1% to S$543 million, primarily supported \u200bby bigger gains \u2060from India&#8217;s Bharti \u200cAirtel and Thailand&#8217;s \u200bAdvanced \u200bInfo Service (AIS). That helped offset a \u20603.1% decline in operating revenue \u200bat Singtel Singapore, which was weighed \u200bdown by continuing price competition.<\/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-1028530","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\/1028530","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=1028530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028531,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028530\/revisions\/1028531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}