Yes, Singtel are the only ones with the rights to show the football. Starhub had the rights up until the start of the 10-11 season and then Singtel outbid them meaning anyone who wanted to watch the footie at home had to get a second boxalmightygoodgod wrote:Quality of service is quite important for me with both mobile data and broadband, I'm quite a heavy user. Any suggested alternatives?
As for the cable, are they the only company with rights for the English Premier League? That is my main concern. My cable package in Hong Kong only ever got turned on over the weekend for the football, now that was a dire package!
Do you find the quality of starhub's Internet and mobile to be quite good?nutnut wrote:Personally, I have Starhub for Cable, mobile and internet and MIO for Sports, it seems to be around the best bundling option IMO, although, the options are pretty poor all over.
Expect to pay around $250 for everything you need, and if you watch anything other than sport, Starhub is a must.
Good luck!
When they paid about 50% more than they needed to to secure the rights, yeahJR8 wrote:Is it Singtel's fault that watching football is expensive? I thought the cost would be mostly to keep the pampered prima-donnas on the pitch in the 6/7 figure salaries to which they are accustomed.
I found Starhub's internet to be very slow, both in a brand spanking new condo and then later in a 15 year old one. Switched to Singtel, they're not great either but seem a bit more stable. M1 is the only other option and by all accounts they're worse.almightygoodgod wrote:Do you find the quality of starhub's Internet and mobile to be quite good?nutnut wrote:Personally, I have Starhub for Cable, mobile and internet and MIO for Sports, it seems to be around the best bundling option IMO, although, the options are pretty poor all over.
Expect to pay around $250 for everything you need, and if you watch anything other than sport, Starhub is a must.
Good luck!
Find the broadband better than Singtel to be honest (we have both currently) and the mobile is fine, very rarely drops, but 3G isn't great (I've heard it's not great on Singtel either) Not much choice though huh!?almightygoodgod wrote:Do you find the quality of starhub's Internet and mobile to be quite good?nutnut wrote:Personally, I have Starhub for Cable, mobile and internet and MIO for Sports, it seems to be around the best bundling option IMO, although, the options are pretty poor all over.
Expect to pay around $250 for everything you need, and if you watch anything other than sport, Starhub is a must.
Good luck!
All broadband internet options here are substandard compared to most of the US, Europe, and Asia. The only ISP I've consistently heard good things about is a company called "Super Internet". You'll probably still be on a Singtel backbone, but it seems like anything in their control to make nice they do. I don't have them personally as they're not available in my flat, but I have a few highly technical friends with opinions I trust that do.almightygoodgod wrote:Quality of service is quite important for me with both mobile data and broadband, I'm quite a heavy user. Any suggested alternatives?
As for the cable, are they the only company with rights for the English Premier League? That is my main concern. My cable package in Hong Kong only ever got turned on over the weekend for the football, now that was a dire package!
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