OpenNet

The OpenNet consortium (SingTel, SPH and Singapore Power Telemedia) were awarded Singapore's National Broadband Network passive network tender on 26 September 2008. OpenNet will directly own the fibre links of the proposal, which will reach 60% of the population by 2010 and 95% by 2012, with OpenNet assuming universal service obligations after 2013.

This proposal creates an open access network with 4 distinct layers of ownership, to separate competitive interests from monopoly aspects of the network. SingTel, the national incumbent will transfer existing ducts, manholes and exchanges to be used in the NBN into an independent asset company by mid-2011 and sell down the stake of its entity by 2014. The fibre will belong to the OpenNet. The electronics will be offered to "operating companies" (OpCo licensees), who will operate the electronics - Layer 2 and 3 of the network, and the operating companies will be resold to retail providers.