Bridge Alliance
The Bridge Alliance is a business alliance of 34 major mobile telecommunications companies in Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East. The alliance is built on seamless service connectivity and a suite of integrated value-added services for all alliance members' subscribers while roaming on each other's networks. The concept is similar to that of the FreeMove alliance in Europe, with whom the Bridge Alliance has a partnership.History
Established on 3 November 2004, the alliance originally comprised Singapore Telecommunications and four companies, namely Bharti Airtel, Globe Telecom, Optus and Telkomsel, as well as Maxis Communications and Taiwan Mobile, enabling it to gain a foothold in the mobile markets of Singapore, India, the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan.
The alliance expanded between 2005 and 2015 to also include Hong Kong CSL in Hong Kong, CTM in Macau, SK Telecom in South Korea, Advanced Info Service in Thailand, MobiFone in Vietnam, Telkomcel in Timor-Leste, Airtel in Sri Lanka, the African operators of Bharti Airtel in Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, SoftBank Mobile in Japan, Saudi Telecom Company in Saudi Arabia, VIVA in Bahrain, VIVA in Kuwait and Avea in Turkey.
At present, the Bridge Alliance members have over 800 million subscribers in 34 markets.
Bridge Alliance partners include AT&T, China Unicom, FreeMove and the .Milestones
2017
- Bridge Alliance and FreeMove extend partnership to offer integrated Enterprise Mobility across 106 markets
2016
- Bridge Alliance and the Global M2M Association collaborate to drive worldwide growth in M2M and Internet of Things markets
2014
- Saudi Telecom Company Joins Bridge Alliance
- SoftBank Mobile Joins Bridge Alliance
2013
- Airtel Africa joins Bridge Alliance
- Bridge Alliance welcomes Airtel Bangladesh on board
- Bridge Alliance welcomes Telkomcel as its 13th member
2012
- Bridge Alliance expands into Vietnam and welcomes MobiFone as their 12th member
- Bridge Alliance and Softbank Mobile formed a business partnership to expand their Enterprise offerings
2011
- AIS and Globe offered Bridge VoiceSMS Roam, one-rate voice and SMS roaming price plans, across APAC
- Bridge AsiaRoamData SIM service had an expanded coverage to 11 countries
2010
- Bridge Alliance launched one-flat rate, daily unlimited data roaming plan across all Bridge Alliance member countries
2007
- Bridge Alliance launched capped plans with one-flat data roaming rate across 11 territories
- FreeMove and Bridge Alliance established partnership
- Two new members added - SK telecom and AIS
2006
- Bridge Alliance welcomes CTM as its newest operator member
2005
- Bridge and SingTel launched their first regional mobile gaming competition
- CSL joined Bridge Alliance
2004
