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fixed StarHub Ltd Annual Report 2015
network

Fixed Network services is fast catching up with pay TV and will soon be Overview
the Company’s second largest revenue contributor. This did not happen
by chance. We have identified the market trends, customers’ needs, and
have made our investments accordingly.

Our Fixed Network business is a broad With this, we are less dependent on other Strategy
portfolio of ICT services and solutions, carriers to provide services to our end
built on our expanding network assets. It customers, allowing us to be successful in Performance
includes voice, data, hosting solutions, value offering managed and secure connections to
added services, WiFi, analytics – the kind of government agencies and enterprises. Governance & Sustainability
connectivity and capabilities that business
customers, be it large MNCs or SMBs, will need Secondly, we boost our own mobile
in today’s fast-moving environment. backhaul capacity around those buildings,
enabling our mobile customers to enjoy
Additionally, we have re-enforced our seamless and faster data connections. And
commitment to provide best-in-class fixed lastly, we replace the leases that we may
infrastructure services to our customers have with our competitors with our own
when we were voted by the readers of fibre; thereby reducing our leasing costs.
Networkworld Asia as the winner of ‘Best IP
Services Infrastructure’. This award is given Hubbing Enterprises
to service providers who build or provide
infrastructure solutions for voice, video and Hubbing is not the exclusive domain
other traffic over IP. of households – businesses can hub,
and they do on a larger scale as well.
Our investment in Fixed Network includes On a fundamental level, hubbing for an
expanding our own fibre network to more enterprise customer relates to using
commercial buildings islandwide. This our core products such as network
investment has helped us in three folds. connectivity and stacking different
Firstly, it provides access to businesses IP-based solutions on top like managed
to these connected buildings allowing us services or cyber security solutions.
to service them. Over the last few years,
we have progressively extended our fixed On another note, an enterprise user of
network connectivity. This is in complement our Fixed Network services can also be
to the Next Gen NBN network to provide true our mobile, pay TV or home broadband
diversity and ensure high service availability customer. This is another level of hubbing
without any single point of failure. opportunity that we aim to leverage and
generate revenues from.

Data & Internet Revenue Voice Revenue
$M $M

2012 295 2012 63 Financials
2013 303 2013 65
2014 2014
2015 321 2015 57
331 54