2012-09-22 – A YEAR after the cross-carriage law was put in place to keep the invisible hand in check, there is now the sneaking suspicion that someone is being shown the finger instead.
The law, which forces pay-TV operators to share exclusive content with its rivals on request, was first mooted in 2010.
Then, there were two ostensible objectives: first, to spare viewers from paying for two subscriptions and set-top boxes at once – and second, to reduce the incentive for a bidding slapfight like the one StarHub and SingTel’s mio TV got into over the Barclays Premier League (BPL) in 2009.
Read more at Business Times
Read the MDA’s letter in response here