IDA fiber broadband prices - A BROKEN PROMISE?

[uncleyap]

When Ass Loong Son used parliamentary budget to establish Open Net IDA promised the consumers' fiber-to-home 100MPS around only S$25 per month.

Today that is is launched, we see offers by telcos ranged from 3 figures (S%109 Singtel mio Advertised in ZaoBao) to SuperInternet's S$49, even for Student's plan it will be S$39 per month. :(

Obviously the telcos are not delivering IDA & Ass Loong Son's promises, they are cheating around it by adding in some features in their bundles and jacking up the prices instead of offering the minimal bear broadband online for homes & SMEs.

Ass Loong Son was still trying in National Day Rally said to be emphasizing SME:oIo:

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=.../DigitalOne/Story/A1Story20100901-234907.html

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CONSUMERS can enjoy faster, cheaper and more stable broadband connections with the commercial launch of the Next Generation National Broadband Network by Nucleus Connect yesterday.
Nucleus Connect is a subsidiary of StarHub, but is operationally separate from the telco.
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</td></tr></tbody></table>It will be selling bandwidth to service providers.
For a start, prices for consumer 100Mbps broadband plans offered by home-grown firm SuperInternet, which is new to the consumer market, go for $49.80 per month, nearly 43 per cent cheaper than the rate for the most expensive residential 100Mbps plans now.
M1 also unveiled 100Mbps plans at $59 and $39 for home users and students, respectively.
Thanks to the high-speed fibre-optic network, initiated by the Government, new players will find it easier to provide broadband services. The network will cover 95 per cent of homes and offices by 2012.
Previously, service providers had to buy bandwidth from private broadband networks built by SingTel and StarHub.
Mr Benjamin Tan, managing director of SuperInternet, said that previously it was "not commercially viable" to buy bandwidth from SingTel if SuperInternet had fewer than 5,000 customers.
But with the new network, bandwidth is sold at a flat and transparent fee, which will encourage new providers to enter the market.
SingTel and StarHub together now own about 86 per cent of broadband subscribers, says research firm Frost & Sullivan.
Mr Adeel Najam, senior industry analyst with Frost & Sullivan, estimated that broadband prices are already falling annually by 3 to 4 per cent. With the new competition, prices could fall by 7 to 10 per cent.
SingTel, which unveiled yesterday a new 150Mbps plan for $85.90 a month and assorted services tapping on the new network, said it did not know if a price war could be triggered.
Commenting on other cheaper plans in the market, Mr Allen Lew, SingTel's chief executive for Singapore, said: "When you say...cheaper, you have to figure out what they're providing, what speeds, and exactly how much the plans would cost."
With this network, broadband speeds here could catch up with those of Asian markets, such as South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and might surpass them, said Mr Najam.
Media reports last year suggested that broadband speeds here lagged behind those of the abovementioned markets because Singapore did not have a nation-wide broadband network.
When asked about broadband speeds here, a spokesman for the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore said that according to its website, "current broadband plans here have generally delivered reasonable speeds to their customers within the service plans of their choice".
Mr David Storrie, chief executive of Nucleus Connect, said that with the advent of the new network, broadband speeds could be 12 times faster than what is offered now.
He also said that the broadband experience and speeds would be more "stable and consistent".
He added that Nucleus Connect would commit a minimum data-transmission rate of 25Mbps with the new network.
M1 will have the same committed rate, while SingTel consumers will enjoy a speed of at least 40Mbps with the network, the telcos' spokesmen said.
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</td></tr></tbody></table>It will be selling bandwidth to service providers.
For a start, prices for consumer 100Mbps broadband plans offered by home-grown firm SuperInternet, which is new to the consumer market, go for $49.80 per month, nearly 43 per cent cheaper than the rate for the most expensive residential 100Mbps plans now.
M1 also unveiled 100Mbps plans at $59 and $39 for home users and students, respectively.
Thanks to the high-speed fibre-optic network, initiated by the Government, new players will find it easier to provide broadband services. The network will cover 95 per cent of homes and offices by 2012.
Previously, service providers had to buy bandwidth from private broadband networks built by SingTel and StarHub.
Mr Benjamin Tan, managing director of SuperInternet, said that previously it was &quot;not commercially viable&quot; to buy bandwidth from SingTel if SuperInternet had fewer than 5,000 customers.
But with the new network, bandwidth is sold at a flat and transparent fee, which will encourage new providers to enter the market.
SingTel and StarHub together now own about 86 per cent of broadband subscribers, says research firm Frost & Sullivan.
Mr Adeel Najam, senior industry analyst with Frost & Sullivan, estimated that broadband prices are already falling annually by 3 to 4 per cent. With the new competition, prices could fall by 7 to 10 per cent.
SingTel, which unveiled yesterday a new 150Mbps plan for $85.90 a month and assorted services tapping on the new network, said it did not know if a price war could be triggered.
Commenting on other cheaper plans in the market, Mr Allen Lew, SingTel's chief executive for Singapore, said: &quot;When you say...cheaper, you have to figure out what they're providing, what speeds, and exactly how much the plans would cost.&quot;
With this network, broadband speeds here could catch up with those of Asian markets, such as South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and might surpass them, said Mr Najam.
Media reports last year suggested that broadband speeds here lagged behind those of the abovementioned markets because Singapore did not have a nation-wide broadband network.
When asked about broadband speeds here, a spokesman for the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore said that according to its website, &quot;current broadband plans here have generally delivered reasonable speeds to their customers within the service plans of their choice&quot;.
Mr David Storrie, chief executive of Nucleus Connect, said that with the advent of the new network, broadband speeds could be 12 times faster than what is offered now.
He also said that the broadband experience and speeds would be more &quot;stable and consistent&quot;.
He added that Nucleus Connect would commit a minimum data-transmission rate of 25Mbps with the new network.
M1 will have the same committed rate, while SingTel consumers will enjoy a speed of at least 40Mbps with the network, the telcos' spokesmen said.
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[uncleyap]

I think SME deserves to have 50MBPS guaranteed bandwidth @ below S$200 per month from Open Net. Additional fixed ipv6 addresses @S$20/mth.

They can do this but they are just unwilling.

They just want to suck more of our blood.

This when Ass Loong Son spent our tax dollars to build Open Net.

For SINGAPOREAN students they should each be given 2MBPS @ FOC

Residential Rates for basic Internet & home phone should be way lower than it is, news TV channels should be FOC, entertainment channels I don't mind they charge higher.

I want to point out that several EU nations are giving FOC Internet to ALL CITIZENS, and one of them made law that a minimum MBPS is a basic rights to everyone. To talk about being so called 1st world.

If famiLEE LEEgime want to claim some e-government services, then with fiber to home provide some minimal amount of FOC bandwidth and charge money for the additional and optional bandwidth for those who can afford.

It is not a luxury that I am talking about.

You go to ministries & stat-boards e.g. renew license or passport they very much expected you to do online.

The talk about e-Citizen, they made e-Citizens pay through their noses!

Then they had mata arresting Netizen when their facebook posted something famiLEE LEEgime is too coward to face.

 

[uncleyap]

uncle


are u living in 1950s?


the only way to avoid things like this is through competition and alternative products NOT benevolence

why we have such strangling prices is because the lack of economy, due to a small market.

do you have any suggestions???????

I live in internet age. :p

Example of free internet exist in many European nations including those as tiny as SGP.

Don't give me silly reasons as arguments only PAp morons will buy these.

Basic national infrastructure like internet built on tax dollars ISN'T a market issue at all. ESPECIALLY on a tiny red dot where connection density is highest, you can connect to lots of people with minimal interconnection distance, cost should be the lowest in the whole world.

Unlike Montana or Alaska or Yukon where distance between houses can be so many miles, in HDB estates there is only few inches of pre-casted walls between each neighbors.

 

[uncleyap]

you want to complain, complain against singtel's monopoly

that's the cause of why they can offer the lowest price and still put the other companies out of business

There is more than one provider besides STINKtel already, still we are being exploited. There are more than just a monopoly factor.

In SG the interconnection between users should be the cheapest in the world due to the high density. Because a little cable installations will easily reach and cover a whole lot of users. Our population density is highest in the world.

Fiber-to-home is a DECADE OLD internet technology unfortunately only now introduced to SG when famiLEE LEEgime claimed to be the 1st world & hub for every damn shit under the sun.

In the past they even arrogantly claimed to be innovative inventor of the world. I must remind people here that before Internet the PAp claimed their BIG FUCK INVENTION called TELEVIEW which fucking died more 10 years ago. Huge funds they squandered into that project under Singapore Technologies of Ho Jinx, & Ass Loong's EDB & TELECOMS which was the older name of IDA.

 

[Watchman]

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/s...t_cant_go_10_seconds_without_freezing_up.html
Posted on 30 Aug 2010
mioTV broadcast can't go 10 seconds without freezing up

 

[Cuntamania]

It's not the first LIE and it wouldn't the last LIE:oIo:

When Ass Loong Son used parliamentary budget to establish Open Net IDA promised the consumers' fiber-to-home 100MPS around only S$25 per month.

Today that is is launched, we see offers by telcos ranged from 3 figures (S%109 Singtel mio Advertised in ZaoBao) to SuperInternet's S$49, even for Student's plan it will be S$39 per month. :(

Obviously the telcos are not delivering IDA & Ass Loong Son's promises, they are cheating around it by adding in some features in their bundles and jacking up the prices instead of offering the minimal bear broadband online for homes & SMEs.

Ass Loong Son was still trying in National Day Rally said to be emphasizing SME:oIo:

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=.../DigitalOne/Story/A1Story20100901-234907.html
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[Singapaporean]

What to do ...LXX CON U ha ha ha

 

[uncleyap]

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/s...t_cant_go_10_seconds_without_freezing_up.html
Posted on 30 Aug 2010
mioTV broadcast can't go 10 seconds without freezing up

WAF?! This kind of quality!

:(:(:(

3rd world or 4th world?

Jiak Liao Bee lah!

 

[johnny333]

Simple lah, everyone should simply boycott the new fiber network

I recently recontracted to Singtels 3mbps plan for $22.00/month which is good enough. I was thinking of subscribing to a faster speed but what's the point as I suspect the bottlekneck will be with the oversea connection.

Even with the faster fiber network I bet that you won't get faster connection to the overseas connection.