Pooling together buyers for bulk purchases is not new. Applying the same concept, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) is conducting a pilot call to aggregate the demand of bandwidth of small volume purchasers. This programme will aggregate the demand for bandwidth from participating companies and enable volume discounts. IDA’s effort is to support digital and internet related businesses that rely much on bandwidth connectivity. Thus, this pilot programme will save some significant costs to this industry.
This pilot programme that IDA is launching is in partnership with India-headquartered bigwig, Tata Communications. They offer bandwidth at SGD50 (USD40.50) per Mbps with following conditions:
a. Total combined bandwidth volume of at least 1Gbps from participating companies
b. Each company commits a minimum volume of 20Mbps
c. Applications to be submitted by 30th June 2011 (bandwidth commitment can commence within 6 months)
If this pilot programme proves successful, IDA plans to have additional calls annually so that industry can plan their connectivity usage and deployment going forward. Interested applicants can contact either Raymond Chiam at 62110176 (email: raymond_chiam@ida.gov.sg) or Victor Tan at 62110933 (email: victor_tan@ida.gov.sg).
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