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Some of the grumbling from SingTel in the past two days has been rather astonishing.
Right after being told to share its Barclays Premier League screenings with StarHub, it threatened to raise prices for football fans next season. It took things further yesterday, saying it might not be bidding for World Cup rights in 2014.
To which football fans should say “thank you”. Let someone else bid lower so viewers don’t have to pay so much. …
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(credit: Ronnie Macdonald, Creative Commons)
Singapore’s football fans will be relieved the ref has got a crucial decision right on Wednesday evening.
Ignoring SingTel’s pleas of innocence, the country’s media regulator clearly told the team in red to show the next three seasons of the Barclays Premier League on rival services, such as StarHub’s cable TV, starting in August.
In a landmark ruling, it essentially laid out how it will deal with pay-TV operators that have somehow found a loophole in its efforts to open up the market and rid it of ruinous exclusive content contracts that have killed consumer choice for years.
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(source: StarHub)
StarHub is using Singapore’s fibre network to deliver its pay-TV services to offices, restaurants and pubs from March 18, as it seeks to cut down on current terrestrial broadcasts to such business customers. …
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(credit: Ronnie Macdonald, Creative Commons)
Being a referee is never easy.
In the latest wrangle between SingTel and StarHub for English Premier League TV rights, the Media Development Authority (MDA) has found itself exactly in that tight spot.
But unlike a match where at least one set of fans will be pleased, a bad call by the officials here will have serious impact beyond just football rights. It will drastically drag back Singapore’s pay-TV industry, just as it is showing signs of opening up. …
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A year after breaking into the fibre broadband scene with promises of un-throttled speeds and no data caps, Singapore-based fibre broadband start-up MyRepublic has unveiled a new service that lets subscribers connect to popular video streaming sites such as Netflix, Hulu and BBC iPlayer.
This Teleport service is not a VPN (virtual private networking) service used usually to provide such video streaming. Instead, MyRepublic’s new add-on to its broadband services is a proprietary technology promising zero effort from the user to install or configure. …
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SingTel has been told to pay an unprecedented S$180,000 fine for problems in its TV service that cut off the last dramatic minutes of last season’s Barclays Premier League for about a third of its pay-TV customers.
Some 115,000 households had missed out on the few extraordinary minutes on May 13, 2012, when two goals for Manchester City in their last game clinched the title in one of the most thrilling endings to a season.
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If you don’t want the bundled mio TV or StarHub cable when you sign up for fibre broadband in Singapore, there’s a new online TV offering from upstart challenger Viewqwest this week – the popular PPTV online TV service from China.
Folks who sign up for Viewqwest’s Freedom VPN plan will get “VIP access” to the PPTV service, which streams thousands of popular Asian drama serials and some Hollywood movies. …
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Big, shiny screens, new game consoles and phones with flexible screens would have wowed you if you followed the news coming out of this year’s CES gadget fest in Las Vegas.
Yet, despite the obvious upgrades in hardware, you’d be surprised that much of the world’s video and movie content is still delivered via old networks and outdated business models.
True, we have iTunes and Google TV now, and even the cable operator in Singapore, StarHub, is putting its programmes online, but these are still some way from changing the way TV can be consumed on interactive devices like smart TVs, tablets or your humble PC.
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If there’s one good thing about pay-TV competition in Singapore, it’s that both SingTel and StarHub show almost all channels for free during holidays, like this New Year weekend. …
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StarHub pay-TV viewers can now watch Cartoon Network, Comedy Central Asia and eight other new channels on their PCs, tablets and smartphones, as the cable operator expanded the lineup for its TV Anywhere service to 36 channels this week.
Similar to what broadcasters in the United States offer, the service is aimed at retaining customers as TV viewing habits shift. Instead of using a set-top box, it lets StarHub cable subscribers view their favourite programmes on any device they prefer, and often at their own time as well. …
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