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January 18th, 2016 | by
Alfred Siew With the long overdue merger, the hope is that the new regulators will take a light-touch...
September 25th, 2014 | by
Alfred Siew The new rules could give more power to TV viewers, who currently have little recourse even if a pay-TV operator changes important details such as prices or content...
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...
June 5th, 2013 | by
Raymond Lau Various websites run by Singapore bloggers will stage a “blackout” this Thursday, 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM, to protest against the Media Development Authority’s (MDA) latest licensing regulations. These...
April 27th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew The real reason why SingTel is unhappy is because it cannot now lock in viewers and sell its more profitable mobile and broadband services to...
April 25th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew The country's media regulator has clearly told the "red" operator to show the next three seasons of the Barclays Premier League on rival StarHub's pay-TV service, starting in...
March 6th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew (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...
February 15th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew 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...
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...
September 9th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew When several Fox channels start being available on SingTel's mio TV set top boxes in October, they will help roll back years of ruinous competition for exclusive content that has resulted in higher prices and inconvenience for...
August 6th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew Here’s a contest that is actually a little meaningful and also has some rather attractive prizes for Singapore’s young online surfers. How would you like to travel to Google’s headquarters at Mountain View,...
May 28th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew It was meant to be the one set-top box you need at home, to tune in to TV channels on SingTel, StarHub, M1 and possibly any new pay-TV operator that would come to Singapore. But instead of being the one box to rule them all,...
November 3rd, 2011 | by
Alfred Siew Though the new rules revealed by the Media Development Authority (MDA) will not encourage viewers to switch overnight, they will find it much easier to do so next year, when it becomes clearer which pay-TV operator, or operators,...
February 18th, 2011 | by
Alfred Siew The much-derided licence fees that Singapore residents have to pay for simply owning a TV or radio have been finally scrapped, as part of an election-friendly Budget unveiled today by the government here in Parliament....
May 11th, 2010 | by
Alfred Siew No, it is not SingTel and StarHub you should be angry with. Nor should you fret that the S$66 package - or S$1-a-match - to watch the 2010 World Cup on the telly in Singapore is four times more than what you had paid in 2006....
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...
February 17th, 2009 | by
Alfred Siew The writing’s been on the wall, but StarHub is finally going to turn off its analog cable TV channels and go fully digital from June 30, 2009. Already, 96 per cent of its cable customers are on digital – a result of...
February 2nd, 2009 | by
Chan Chi-Loong Start-up@ Singapore 2009, a national business plan competition with a 10-year pedigree, is giving away this to potential winners, amongst other goodies like S$200,000 cash prizes. The initial executive summary phase has been...
June 24th, 2008 | by
Alfred Siew Serious couch potatoes got a big boost last week, when news emerged that HD5 is finally going to be shown on StarHub’s cable TV service. What’s the big deal with one more free-to-air HD channel? Well, finally StarHub...
