Breakdown of Households with Landline Telephone Connection by Housing and Line Type

Dr Tan Wu Meng asked the Minister for Communications and Information how many households, broken down by the different categories of housing type, still have a landline telephone connection which is (i) an analogue line and (ii) connected via optical network terminal or other home digital line, respectively.

There are about 1.2 million residential fixed-line telephony service subscriptions in Singapore. Of these, close to one million were subscribed to digital telephony services. Analogue fixed-line telephony subscriptions are declining as telecommunications operators continue to upgrade their networks. The distribution of all fixed-line subscribers by housing types broadly mirrors that of the households. We do not have a further breakdown according to the type of fixed-line service.