To create a pro-consumer and pro-business infocomm environment, IDA formulates infocomm-related policies, standards, codes of practice and advisory guidelines aimed at leveling the playing field for infocomm service providers and empowering consumers and businesses with more choices.

IDA plays an active role in developing Singapore’s pool of globally-competitive infocomm talent and an infocomm-savvy workforce. We are also focused on driving consumer education initiatives, ensuring digital inclusion and supporting the effective use of infocomm in community outreach efforts.

Overview

IDA drives the growth, competitiveness and innovation of Singapore’s infocomm industry by nurturing local infocomm enterprises and supporting them in their internationalisation efforts. We also seek to inject greater vibrancy into the infocomm ecosystem by attracting world-class global infocomm MNCs and startups to hub in Singapore.

Consumer Stories

Filter the content below by:

The Main Difference is Speed

Consumers are discovering a solution for their connectivity pains - and it comes in the form of the Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN). The Next Gen NBN is an ultra-high speed fibre network that offers competitively priced broadband speeds of up to more than 1 Gbps and is expected to achieve 95 per cent coverage nationwide by mid-2012.

Read More »

Play HD Videos Without Buffering

The Tan household has gone through several speed barriers in its decade-long Internet journey - from 512 kbps in the early 2000s to 1.5 Mbps in 2005 and now to 60 Mbps with the Next Gen NBN. In December last year, the family decided to really rev up the bandwidth because "1.5 Mbps was awfully slow", said Mr Shawn Tan, 23. It decided to subscribe to ViewQwest's Fibernet 60 plan which offers 60 Mbps downlink and 50 Mbps uplink connectivity.

Read More »

It No Longer Breaks Down Halfway

Ms Toh Sin Ye, 24, who has just completed her final year of business studies at the Singapore Management University, made the switch from an existing broadband bundle to the Next Gen NBN after doing the math.

Read More »

Serving Fibre at Floor Parties

Floor parties have given an added boost to the number of fibre installations at Canberra, which won the latest round of the latest Most Fibred-Up Constituency Contest with more than 70 per cent of its residents installing the fibre termination points in their homes.

Read More »

These articles were published in the infocomm industry e-newsletter, iN.SG . To subscribe to iN.SG, click here .

Was this information useful?