barclays premier league
August 17th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew Still can't decide with hours away from this BPL season's kickoff? Here's a quick guide to picking a SingTel or StarHub pay-TV package that suits...
August 3rd, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew For the first time, telcos are cutting prices directly on add-on services to attract football viewers....
July 27th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew This is the final score for football fans looking to watch Barclays Premier League matches from next month - pay SingTel S$59.90 a...
July 22nd, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew Pay-TV operators and content owners are going to find it hard to "geo-block" content with streaming services crossing...
October 10th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew Whether StarHub viewers will get to watch the matches on their cable set-top boxes, however, is a big question mark...
October 29th, 2010 | by
Alfred Siew Samsung's Galaxy Tab is shipping in Singapore on November 13, with the Wi-Fi cum 3G version hitting stores before a Wi-Fi-only version that could appear later at a yet unspecified date....
November 23rd, 2009 | by
Alfred Siew StarHub uses a cable plant to send its TV signals to homes; SingTel uses a totally different ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) broadband network - you might just get two separate set-top boxes more cheaply than to...
September 4th, 2009 | by
Alfred Siew Without the protagonists even speaking a word about it, the market has been filled with talk of a possible SingTel-StarHub joint bid for the upcoming three seasons of exclusive Barclays Premier League (BPL) content. Yet, after...
August 7th, 2009 | by
Alfred Siew Free football in a small pay-TV market distorted by exclusive content deals? That's not a National Day joke. It's one fierce promotional ploy that SingTel is announcing today, just days before the football season kicks off for...
October 29th, 2008 | by
Alfred Siew StarHub has done something so stupid with its Barclays Premier League programming that I’m sure all the thousands of football fans in Singapore will join me in wanting to wring these idiots’ necks. On a weekday night...
July 29th, 2008 | by
Alfred Siew Finally, there’s one more channel on StarHub – the long-awaited free-to-air HD5 from MediaCorp, which promises “true HD” channels during primetime (the rest are up-converted). The channel is supposed to...