I will start a series of comparison in broadband prices in each countries that i visited. Of which, i will try to compare the wholesale price that these operators are buying.
For simplicity, 100M fiber broadband speeds will be used:
Monthly published rates
SingTel - $69.90
StarHub - $68.27
M1 - $39
My republic - $38.88
The fiber broadband gives you more value per dollar or per Meg of IP packet as compared to the normal broadband. For example, SingTel is selling $31.90 for 10Mbps speed. This is about $3.19 Per Mbps ($31.90/10). For fiber broadband, it is $0.699 Per Mbps. That's more power per buck. The IP transit price in Singapore right now is below $10 Per Mbps depending on the bandwidths. Thus to make money, the operators have to oversubscribe quite substantially. You need to have mass or economy of scale so the smaller boys will have a tough time.
Obviously, SingTel and StarHub owns the lion share of the market with My republic the least. I think My republic only has about 10,000 subs as of Mar 13. This is considered not bad considering they just started 1 year ago. They just celebrated their 1 year old birthday recently. It will be interesting to see how's the market elsewhere. Will be back soon.
Monthly published rates
SingTel - $69.90
StarHub - $68.27
M1 - $39
My republic - $38.88
The fiber broadband gives you more value per dollar or per Meg of IP packet as compared to the normal broadband. For example, SingTel is selling $31.90 for 10Mbps speed. This is about $3.19 Per Mbps ($31.90/10). For fiber broadband, it is $0.699 Per Mbps. That's more power per buck. The IP transit price in Singapore right now is below $10 Per Mbps depending on the bandwidths. Thus to make money, the operators have to oversubscribe quite substantially. You need to have mass or economy of scale so the smaller boys will have a tough time.
Obviously, SingTel and StarHub owns the lion share of the market with My republic the least. I think My republic only has about 10,000 subs as of Mar 13. This is considered not bad considering they just started 1 year ago. They just celebrated their 1 year old birthday recently. It will be interesting to see how's the market elsewhere. Will be back soon.
