Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) with its wholly-owned subsidiary, Optus, and regional mobile associates will jointly participate in the GSMA’s Mobile Energy Efficiency (MEE) Bench¬marking initiative. Through this exercise, a benchmark will be developed for the Group entities to drive energy cost savings and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their network operations.
The participants include Airtel (India and Africa), Advanced Info Service (Thailand), Globe Telecom (Philippines), Optus (Australia), Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Ltd (Bangladesh), SingTel (Singapore), Telkomsel (Indonesia) and Warid (Pakistan). The Group companies will work with GSMA to benchmark their networks against industry peers using standard energy key performance indicators. To deliver long term improvements, the exercise will be conducted annually and outcomes tracked regularly against the benchmarks.