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Commentary: About time IDA and MDA merged

With the long overdue merger, the hope is that the new regulators…

Alfred Siew

MDA proposes tougher rules, more consumer protection for pay-TV services

The new rules could give more power to TV viewers, who currently…

Alfred Siew

Commentary: S$59.90 to watch Barclays Premier League matches in Singapore

This is the final score for football fans looking to watch Barclays…

Alfred Siew

Singapore bloggers stage 24-hour ‘blackout’ to protest media regulation

Various websites run by Singapore bloggers will stage a "blackout" this Thursday, 12:00…

Raymond Lau

Commentary: SingTel playing a risky game with its pay-TV stance

The real reason why SingTel is unhappy is because it cannot now…

Alfred Siew

Commentary: MDA tells SingTel to show BPL matches on rival channels

The country's media regulator has clearly told the "red" operator to show…

Alfred Siew

Commentary: MDA has to sort out StarHub-SingTel football wrangle

(credit: Ronnie Macdonald, Creative Commons) Being a referee is never easy. In…

Alfred Siew

SingTel fined a record S$180,000 for mio TV football outage

SingTel has been told to pay an unprecedented S$180,000 fine for problems…

Alfred Siew

SingTel wins Barclays Premier League broadcast rights for Singapore

Whether StarHub viewers will get to watch the matches on their cable…

Alfred Siew

Commentary: SingTel brings National Geographic and other Fox channels to mio TV

When several Fox channels start being available on SingTel's mio TV set…

Alfred Siew

Win a trip to Google HQ, Android phones with cyber wellness contest

Here's a contest that is actually a little meaningful and also has…

Alfred Siew

Bye bye to a common set-top box for Singapore

It was meant to be the one set-top box you need at…

Alfred Siew

More pro-consumer pay-TV contracts in Singapore from March 2012

Though the new rules revealed by the Media Development Authority (MDA) will…

Alfred Siew

Budget 2011: TV and radio licence fees scrapped in Singapore

The much-derided licence fees that Singapore residents have to pay for simply…

Alfred Siew

Commentary: Why you should say no to World Cup 2010

No, it is not SingTel and StarHub you should be angry with.…

Alfred Siew

A common set-top box for S’pore: you sure it makes sense?

StarHub uses a cable plant to send its TV signals to homes;…

Alfred Siew

Commentary: Is a SingTel-StarHub joint BPL bid still on?

Without the protagonists even speaking a word about it, the market has…

Alfred Siew

StarHub pay-TV goes fully digital

The writing's been on the wall, but StarHub is finally going to…

Alfred Siew

Want to win a tech grant of S$50K from MDA?

Start-up@ Singapore 2009, a national business plan competition with a 10-year pedigree,…

Chan Chi-Loong

HDTV rocks

Serious couch potatoes got a big boost last week, when news emerged…

Alfred Siew