Who’s winning the telco race in Singapore?

OCBC says the competition is tight as all three telcos - M1, SingTel and StarHub - put in pretty decent showing in their 3Q11 results.

And it seems like SingTel is taking the lead, as it continues to dominate the post-paid mobile market with a ~46% share.

Here’s more from OCBC:

Decent 3CY11 showing. All the three telcos - M1, SingTel and StarHub - put in pretty decent showing in their 3QCY results recently, mostly meeting our forecasts, and largely demonstrating the defensive nature of their businesses. StarHub declared a quarterly dividend of $0.05/share, while SingTel declared an interim dividend of S$0.068/share.

Review of Singapore operations. For the post-paid mobile market, there was no change to status quo - SingTel continues to dominate with a ~46% share, followed by StarHub with ~28% and M1 ~26%. Overall, the post- paid subscriber base here grew by some 55k QoQ to 3967k in the quarter, with the bulk coming from SingTel (+40k) while smartphones continued to be the phone of choice. However, we note that all three telcos saw higher monthly churn; monthly ARPUs have also declined for both M1 and SingTel but rose marginally for StarHub.

The broadband segment was quite mixed, with SingTel adding 2.1% more subscribers, while StarHub saw a 1.3% fall; M1 revealed that it added 16k fiber customers, but did not reveal its overall broadband numbers. Finally on Pay TV, SingTel gained more traction in the quarter, while StarHub saw a marginal dip in subscribers; but we believe that content will determine growth.

4QCY11 outlook remains stable. Going forward, all the three telcos expect their Singapore operations to remain stable or show modest growth, buoyed by continued customer additions and increasing mobile data usage. We expect the three telcos' EBITDA margins to remain around current levels - 42% for M1, 42% for SingTel and 30% for StarHub.

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