These are some eye-watering amounts. £10.8 million for each game?
Closer to home, Singtel and Starhub have both declined to make any comment on this increase. The only thing we know is that the renewal discussions (for 2016/17 and beyond) are expected only at the end of 2015, and likely to stretch well into 2016.
The current monthly subscription with Singtel is $60 per month. If we extrapolate the UK increase, this will take the monthly sum to well over $100.
Would you pay $100 to watch live football on your TV, when you can get paid (ie legal) IPTV services for less than a fraction of this?
My doomsday prediction is this - subs will go up to $80-90 per month, and the IDA introduces legislation to ban legal IPTV streaming in Singapore.
If that happens, I'm going to migrate* to Australia. Live football is cheaper there. Plus, I think I can buy a nice Porsche for the amount we'd pay for a used Honda Civic.
* j/k, dear.
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