Chitchat Starhub Revenue Collapsed - PayTV Subscribers Abandoned Ship

[Pinkieslut]

PROBABLY SINKIES WHO GET LEEPLACED BY FT, LOST THEIRS JOBS HAVE TO CUT DOWN ON SPENDING. FT MORE INTERESTED TO SAVE EVERY CENT SO THAT CAN GO HOME LIVE LIKE A KING!

StarHub loses 11,000 payTV subscribers

These subscribers have completed their contract, pulling profit down by 27.6%.

StarHub's mobile and pay-TV businesses continued to be under pressure while residential broadband and fixed enterprise businesses have progressed sideways. The telco giant lost around 11,000 pay-TV subscribers, the fifth consecutive quarter of sequential contraction. As UOB Kay Hian noted, StarHub said that a larger-than-usual proportion of its pay-TV subscriber base completed their contracts. It also faces competition from alternative viewing options, such as OTT video services.

This has badgered its overall bottomline, which reported a 27.6% YoY decline to $86m.

Meanwhile, the brokerage firm noted that both its post-paid and pre-paid revenues have suffered contractions, with overall mobile revenue falling 3.6%.

"Post-paid ARPU declined by 2.8% yoy to S$69 due to reduced contributions from roaming and iDD. Pre-paid ARPU declined by 11.1% yoy to S$16 due to lower usage for voice and iDD," UOB stated.

On the other hand, its residential broadband segment's recovery has reached a plateau, with the paltry 2,000 subscriber gain at a flat ARPU at $37.

"23,000 subscribers migrated to fibre broadband but it did not have a visible impact on ARPU. The penetration for fibre broadband expanded by 4.6ppt to 73.9% in 3Q16," UOB explained.

 

[johnny333]

I was previously a subscriber for their pay TV services but stopped a few years ago. They never bothered to offer me anything to keep my business

Then recently I received a letter from them out of blue, for some kind of offer. Don't know the details because I threw away the letter. With the availability of IPTV their TV subscription service has become irrelevant. Don't know about their telephone service but I find it cheaper to use a pre-paid card because I also get free local calls with my internet connection.

 

[Pinkieslut]

I was previously a subscriber for their pay TV services but stopped a few years ago. They never bothered to offer me anything to keep my business

Then recently I received a letter from them out of blue, for some kind of offer. Don't know the details because I threw away the letter. With the availability of IPTV their TV subscription service has become irrelevant. Don't know about their telephone service but I find it cheaper to use a pre-paid card because I also get free local calls with my internet connection.

I just watch Youtube, YouKu and other online channels. Only need an ultra fast internet connection

 

[Kuailan]

PROBABLY SINKIES WHO GET LEEPLACED BY FT, LOST THEIRS JOBS HAVE TO CUT DOWN ON SPENDING. FT MORE INTERESTED TO SAVE EVERY CENT SO THAT CAN GO HOME LIVE LIKE A KING!

StarHub loses 11,000 payTV subscribers

These subscribers have completed their contract, pulling profit down by 27.6%.

StarHub's mobile and pay-TV businesses continued to be under pressure while residential broadband and fixed enterprise businesses have progressed sideways. The telco giant lost around 11,000 pay-TV subscribers, the fifth consecutive quarter of sequential contraction. As UOB Kay Hian noted, StarHub said that a larger-than-usual proportion of its pay-TV subscriber base completed their contracts. It also faces competition from alternative viewing options, such as OTT video services.

This has badgered its overall bottomline, which reported a 27.6% YoY decline to $86m.

Meanwhile, the brokerage firm noted that both its post-paid and pre-paid revenues have suffered contractions, with overall mobile revenue falling 3.6%.

"Post-paid ARPU declined by 2.8% yoy to S$69 due to reduced contributions from roaming and iDD. Pre-paid ARPU declined by 11.1% yoy to S$16 due to lower usage for voice and iDD," UOB stated.

On the other hand, its residential broadband segment's recovery has reached a plateau, with the paltry 2,000 subscriber gain at a flat ARPU at $37.

"23,000 subscribers migrated to fibre broadband but it did not have a visible impact on ARPU. The penetration for fibre broadband expanded by 4.6ppt to 73.9% in 3Q16," UOB explained.

These 11,000 subscribers pay thru their nose to watch programs that repeat
countless times in that 2 years!! After 2 years contract its only natural these
subscribers pull off!! Mind you StarHub program doesn't come cheap!!

Each stupid program can cost you $21.00 /month !! so each house hold has to pay StarHub which soon going to be StarBankrupt!! Hurray employ more Foreign Trash!!

 

[johnny333]

I just watch Youtube, YouKu and other online channels. Only need an ultra fast internet connection

I like to keep up with the news & found ways to watch news channels for FREE. I watch CNN via Kodi & MSNBC business news via my ThinkorSwim account. Kodi also gives access to BBC, Bloomberg, Aljazeera,.. I'm fixing my 2nd PC so that I can dedicate that PC as a torrent & Kodi machine.

Thinking about subscribing to one of the IPTV news & movies services for $80/year. When I was with Starhub I was paying $47/ month for their movie channels. They force you to subscribe to pack of channels which drive up the costs.

 

[JohnTan]

Why would people pay for cable tv when they can watch recent tv shows, sitcoms and movies through free streaming sites?

 

[red amoeba]

order a unblock TV online and viola, you have everything including 10+ channels of non-stop piaking.

 

[WujiBo]

[video=youtube;Z8qp-KjAm58]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8qp-KjAm58[/video]

 

[bushtucker]

time to accumulate? this stock has reached its bottom of the 52 week period.

 

[garlic]

I like to keep up with the news & found ways to watch news channels for FREE. I watch CNN via Kodi & MSNBC business news via my ThinkorSwim account. Kodi also gives access to BBC, Bloomberg, Aljazeera,.. I'm fixing my 2nd PC so that I can dedicate that PC as a torrent & Kodi machine.

Thinking about subscribing to one of the IPTV news & movies services for $80/year. When I was with Starhub I was paying $47/ month for their movie channels. They force you to subscribe to pack of channels which drive up the costs.

Let me save you some time, subscribe to RuYa Iptv, largest and bestest... install on kodi and watch anywhere..

 

[johnny333]

Let me save you some time, subscribe to RuYa Iptv, largest and bestest... install on kodi and watch anywhere..

I've come across the Brit/European IPTV service providers before. Many of their channels are European & are more expensive. The ones I have been looking at advertise servers that are located close to Spore. I think they are located in Malaysia? They claim that they are more reliable than the competition i.e. run by PRC Chinese who have servers in China.

The TV content they provide are the usual pay channels like HBO, Cartoon Network, Hallmark,..... provided by Astro in Malaysia. For less than $100 for a years subscription I think it is cheap.

 

[mojito]

What a silly unproductive pastime people have! Go read a classics or post your wisdom on bulletin boards like here.

 

[johnny333]

What a silly unproductive pastime people have! Go read a classics or post your wisdom on bulletin boards like here.

Some of us have more free time than others,

The internet is a great thing to have. You can watch TV & movies. Many of the movies that interest me are the older movies, some that I remember seeing in my younger days. Just the other the other day I watched "To Sire with Love", again

I'm also torrenting books. Some of these are books are those that I have read 20+ years ago & now rediscovering. There is also plenty of current magazines one can download. I used to buy some of these magazines but now you can only find them at stores like Kinokuniya.

 

[Bigfuck]

Machiam one telco only in SGP oredi already half dead, some more want 4 telcos. We do not need to feed parasitic jiak liao bee scholars, esp the military ones. In war, the missiles from overseas will do the job, not their 5 meals a day in camp lousy mouthing.

 

[jw5]

Some of us have more free time than others,

The internet is a great thing to have. You can watch TV & movies. Many of the movies that interest me are the older movies, some that I remember seeing in my younger days. Just the other the other day I watched "To Sire with Love", again

I'm also torrenting books. Some of these are books are those that I have read 20+ years ago & now rediscovering. There is also plenty of current magazines one can download. I used to buy some of these magazines but now you can only find them at stores like Kinokuniya.

The internet is indeed great. The person who invented it should be given a prize.

 

[johnny333]

The internet is indeed great. The person who invented it should be given a prize.

Have to agree with you. If it wasn't for the internet I wouldn't have been able to trade US stocks online & make enough $ for my retirement.

I would probable be hanging around the Void Decks waiting to die. Instead I am reading about many interesting places to Cheong & places to retire

 

[Pinkieslut]

Machiam one telco only in SGP oredi already half dead, some more want 4 telcos. We do not need to feed parasitic jiak liao bee scholars, esp the military ones. In war, the missiles from overseas will do the job, not their 5 meals a day in camp lousy mouthing.

Its already death spiral:
1. Growing pool of Scholars - Need to suck Sinkies more and more until bone dry.
2. Diminishing spending power - Sinkies kenna sucked dry, retrenched, salary get chopped or leeplaced by cheaper FTs. FT dont spend.
3. Dwindling real populaton - No $$$, No Honey, No children. Sharp inverted population pyramid.
4. More "competition" - The need to create more and more faked meaningless business, all state owned to keep the Scholars, FT pets employed.

First stage - diminishing returns.
2nd stage - sudden revenue collapse.
3rd stage - No eye see.

 

[JHolmesJr]

Let me save you some time, subscribe to RuYa Iptv, largest and bestest... install on kodi and watch anywhere..

a bit pricey eh?

 

[garlic]

I've come across the Brit/European IPTV service providers before. Many of their channels are European & are more expensive. The ones I have been looking at advertise servers that are located close to Spore. I think they are located in Malaysia? They claim that they are more reliable than the competition i.e. run by PRC Chinese who have servers in China.

The TV content they provide are the usual pay channels like HBO, Cartoon Network, Hallmark,..... provided by Astro in Malaysia. For less than $100 for a years subscription I think it is cheap.

Yeah, i dont watch HK dramas, so these live european tv channels more appealing to me...

 

[garlic]

a bit pricey eh?

Not at all, it's worth it.. also, if let's say you travel overseas for work, with a decent internet connection you can watch all those channels.. its not geo-locked at all..