You can now watch world cup in Singapore... for S$66 B4 GST

last SG · 2010-05-09T04:43:37+00:00

i also won't pay for it. i am so broke.

charlize SG

I think no big deal for the telcos.

If they lose money on this WC deal, then they will just raise other forms of prices to make up for the lost revenue eg. mobile phones, internet etc.

What can we do?

Go back to the stone age by not using handphones or internet?

stellazio SG

Latest news coming out to encourage fans to subscribe is... Rumour has it that coffee will be priced at $1.20 at coffee shops... Man, this whole thing is so sick...

how can they force coffeeshops to increase price?people subscribing at home means less business for them overall stall holders..

Rooney9 SG

how can they force coffeeshops to increase price?people subscribing at home means less business for them overall stall holders..

lol. if people go to coffeshops just to order coffee and tea in order to watch world cup, then the coffeeshop is in serious financial trouble. how many cup of coffee and tea are they going to earn to break even? of course not. its the beers like tiger beer and heineken and stout lol.

stellazio SG

I know, but really raising the price of a cup of coffee just for this world cup is ridiculous. It will not and i repeat change the minds of those who have already decided to boycott and to watch their matches at coffeeshops.

This whole thing about 1 match being cheaper then a cup of coffee is absurd, when you consider that the majority and i mean about 90% of the people actually only watch maybe half or less then that of the total matches.

Arapahoe SG

Look at it this way otherwise if not for the world cup there would only be handful of coffee sold in this case double the coffee sold.

Rock^Star SG

Haiya....like I said....get a good antennae for 40 bucks and then tune into RCTI Indonesia. Not just for world cup, champions league also free. But no EPL.

Fyi, I have been watching free champions league matches and EPL here in Indonesia. Other channels show the La Liga and Serie A too. Sometimes, I see Baihakki Khaizan, Mustafic, Noh Alam Shah and Precious etc in the local leagues lol. Man, their stadiums are full....something like 20-30,000. These matches are played from 4pm weekdays. I wonder....don't these fans have to work? haha.

Arapahoe SG

what is the fisaco about the firm base has the exclusive commercial right for public viewing???

where did that came from?

singaporean get chopped here and there....for one stupid game...

zocoss SG

ORGANISERS planning to host live viewing parties of World Cup matches in Singapore next month have run into licensing trouble.

Wharf House, a Singapore-based firm, said it has secured the exclusive rights from world football body Fifa to organise commercial public screenings of World Cup matches here.

The international sports rights agency has a World Cup event planned for Sentosa, and is clamping down on others who intend to charge the public to attend unauthorised viewing parties.

zocoss SG

This new thing i guess is... You can't charge for public viewing unless you get this company's authorization... So I am guessing if cinemas wish to screen the WC matches in their halls, they will have to go to this company instead of Starhub or Singtel as in the past?

But for pubs, restaurants and coffeeshops... They have a loophole. And that is they don't charge you for the match itself, but only more expensive beverage...

Arapahoe SG

But for pubs, restaurants and coffeeshops... They have a loophole. And that is they don't charge you for the match itself, but only more expensive beverage...

It would be an easy solution just like the Stripe Club....You Charge US$20 for a mug of Beer....

charlize SG

To get round the issue of entry fees, you ask for "donations".

Rock^Star SG

money money money :)

Arapahoe SG

To get round the issue of entry fees, you ask for "donations".

Well if you put donations than you better actually be passing the bucks to some organizations.....selling compulsory 1st drink folks actually like to drink at that place it just happen that they were showing soccer on their flat panel....

zocoss SG

It would be an easy solution just like the Stripe Club....You Charge US$20 for a mug of Beer....

Isn't it what the more expensive coffee at coffee shops are all about already? It's the same idea...

redDUST SG

well, i dun know if the malls in singapore are doing something about it, like during the japan/kr wc. they should set-up big screens in the mall and then have extended shopping hours. the boys can watch football while the fairer gender can shop or have night snacks and gossip with their kind. i think business for that 1 month should increase.

here where i live, in a cricket mad country, we still get ALL matches for free. in singapore, money talks completely...and that can only be a bad, bad thing.

Medicated Oil SG

They are showing the matches for free at 16 CC.

The election must be coming as this have never occurred in the 40 years of MIW rule.

They must be desperate to make the general crowd happy.

βέτά SG

Starhub and Singtel are really out to reap big profits from soccer crazies.

Just north of the border (Astro), they are charging like RM 66.95, that is for the Family package + Sports package + News package. Some folks in Singapore are already paying for the Sports package for Starhub, yet they want to charge extra for them to watch World Cup 2010.

http://www.astro.com.my/getastro/packages/promo/new/packages_lineup.asp

And they want to sucker us into paying SG$70 for just the World Cup 2010.

This goes to show whenever you have monopolies running under the disguise of free competition, all consumers lose out. It's the same with politics, having one dominant political party calling all the shots will reduce the welfare of everybody else.

charlize SG

Only in Singapore, competition raises prices.

Really.

CKeer SG

Only in Singapore, competition raises prices.

Really.

Since where is there competition? It's monopoly all along.

Arapahoe SG

there is a speakers corner protest.....getting hot.

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