Allen Lew is the Chief Executive Officer

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 (CEO) of Singapore Telecommunications

Singapore Telecommunications

Singapore Telecommunications Limited , commonly abbreviated as SingTel, is a Singaporean telecommunications company, with a combined mobile subscriber base of 416 million customers from its own operations and regional associates in 25 countries at end of June 2011 increased by 19 percent from a...

 for Singapore

Singapore

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 operations. He started his career with SingTel and worked with various senior management positions in SingTel and its associates.

Previously he worked as Chief Operating Officer

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 of Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited - SingTel's associate in Thailand

Thailand

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, Chief Operating Officer

Chief operating officer

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 of Singapore Telecom International Pte Ltd and Managing Director of Optus Consumer, Australia

Australia

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. He returned to Singapore in 2006 to assume CEO-Singapore role which was seen by analysts as the starting of SingTel aggressive campaign to regain its market share.

In 2008 SingTel gained market share and became number one in pre-paid mobile, kept its number one position in post-paid mobile and broadband markets.