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Singtel to waive local mobile data charges on 1 May

[UPDATED 24 April 2015, 6.05pm: Singtel says it will waive local mobile data charges on Labour Day, 1 May.]

Singtel has announced that it will be waiving local mobile data charges on Labour Day (1 May) in light of the mobile data incident on Wednesday (22 April), which prompted a flood of complaints by irate customers.

Some customers said they experienced the outage starting at 10am on Wednesday, while others said the outage started around 1pm.

“Customers may be experiencing intermittent difficulties accessing 3G and 4G mobile data services,” said Singtel via Facebook at 3pm. “Our engineers are currently investigating and are working on restoring services as soon as possible.”

Some of the complaints added that the customer service hotline was also inaccessible.