GlobeTel Singapore has secured a facilities-based operation licence from the country’s Info-communications Development Authority  to provide international cable and other telecommunications services in Singapore. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of GTI Business Holdings, which in turn is 100 per cent owned by Philippines-based Globe Telecom. Besides strengthening connectivity between the city state and the Philippines, as well as supporting business users in both countries; the Singapore unit will also deliver alternate and redundant cable paths from Singapore to Hong Kong and Japan transiting the Philippines.