Eileen Yu

Senior Contributing Editor

Bio
Disclosure

Currently an independent business tech journalist and panel moderator based in Singapore, Eileen Yu has over 20 years of industry experience with various publications including ZDNET, IDG, and Singapore Press Holdings. She covers indust…ry developments in Singapore and other Asian markets, with special focus on China, and aims to drive discussions around cybersecurity, data, and government policies. Eileen majored in Journalism at The University of Queensland, Australia, where she wrote an honours thesis titled: To Censor or Not: The Great Singapore Dilemma.

Eileen Yu has no shares-related information to disclose as she doesn't hold investments in the organisations she covers. Acceptance of fees related to her freelance projects does not constitute an endorsement of the company and will not influence her coverage of the company. She is not sponsored by any company or under any exclusive contract.

Latest from Eileen Yu

Prepare for the unexpected

A disaster struck several nurseries in Singapore on Dec. 20.

January 4, 2007 by Eileen Yu in Telcos

We've been hit! We've been hit!

In case you were wondering, ZDNet Asia wasn't on holiday yesterday.We were among the companies affected by the damage to undersea cables as a result of an earthquake that hit off the southern coast of Taiwan on Tuesday night.

December 28, 2006 by Eileen Yu in Telcos

Singtel, Ericsson set up 5G development facility

Located in Singapore, the centre is jointly funded at S$2 million over three years and will aim to drive the development of 5G in the city-state through skills upgrading, product demos, and industry collaboration.

October 11, 2017 by Eileen Yu in Telcos

Singapore operators sign up payment providers in Mobile Connect push

EZ-Link and Nets are among a handful of partners Singapore's three mobile carriers have roped in to support the GSMA authentication standard, allowing users to access services via their mobile number, but details on local implementation will be available only when services go live later this year.

April 28, 2017 by Eileen Yu in Telcos

Major leadership changes signal uncertainty in China's telco market

Changes in the top seats at China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom are the most significant in a decade, and may negatively impact the smaller players in the short term.

August 25, 2015 by Eileen Yu in Telcos

Singapore telcos hit the road with transit NFC pay service

M1, Singtel, and StarHub offer NFC transit SIM cards to allow subscribers to pay for bus and train rides with their mobile phones, but while Samsung devices are on the list of approved devices, Apple iPhone isn't.

March 29, 2016 by Eileen Yu in Telcos

Singapore mobile operator let off the hook over service outage

M1 will not have to pay a fine for a five-hour service disruption in February 2014 because it wasn't responsible for a software bug in its switches that caused the downtime, says the country's regulator.

January 7, 2015 by Eileen Yu in Telcos

Driving Miss IT

The Singapore government and I have a love-hate relationship...it loves putting up ERP (electronic road pricing) gantries across the entire island-state, and I hate having to pay for them.

October 16, 2008 by Eileen Yu in Telcos