September 6, 2012 – It was meant to be the cure for the woes suffered by so many pay-TV subscribers – too much content was being split up between Singapore’s two service providers. If you were a subscriber to one provider and if the rights to the show you wanted to watch had been bought by the other, tough luck. You had to either subscribe to the other provider, or go without.
But one year on from the implementation of the Government’s rule aimed at curbing the rise of content locked up behind walled gardens, trying to get a fix on how much consumers have been helped is like watching a blurry television channel. Some parts of the picture will snap into focus, but other parts remain murky.
The cross carriage rule sought to loosen the grip on content by Singapore’s duopoly of cable television providers, SingTel and StarHub.
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