ICELL Network

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iCELL Network Pte Ltd
Type Private
Industry
  • Wireless infrastructure
  • Data management
FoundedJanuary 2004 (2004-01)
Headquarters
Key people
Ken Chua (CEO as of 2013) [1]

iCELL Network Pte Ltd was a Singapore-based wireless infrastructure provider. It was, at one time in the 2000s, one of the three operators of the Wireless@SG programme in Singapore.

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History

The company was formed in 2004, spun off from PC-Connect, a company focusing on systems' integration, which, in turn, was spun off from Neat Technologies in 2002. [2]

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) selected iCELL to be one of the three initial service providers for Wireless@SG. iCELL was eventually dropped from the programme in July 2013, when the company's proposal did not meet IDA's requirements for the next deployment phase of the programme. [3]

In 2015, Chua Thiong Kien was sentenced to six months imprisonment for cheating the Infocommunications Development Authority of Singapore. While iCELL was part of the Wireless@SG project, Chua submitted an expense of $379,200 to the IDA, the authority over Wireless@SG; included in the expenses was an invoice for 425 Internet cameras from PC Connect. In reality, only 44 cameras were actually purchased; Chua himself was still a director at PC Connect and had directed PC Connect to create the invoice for 425 cameras. [4]

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References

  1. "Management". iCELL Network Pte Ltd. Archived from the original on 2013-04-28. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  2. "Wireless Services & Solutions - iCELL Network". Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  3. Ho, Derrick (April 24, 2013). "Government drops iCell as Wireless@SG service provider". The Straits Times (online ed.). Singapore Press Holdings. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
  4. Commercial Affairs Department Annual Report 2015 (PDF) (Report). Singapore Police Force. 2015. p. 41. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-02-08. Retrieved 2018-02-07.