This whole incident has just blown out of Singtel and
Starhub's faces and show the lack of transparency in this bidding
nonsense in Sg... Earlier we were told or made to believed
Singtel's bid for the EPL was $400million all this while and Fifa
wanted $100 million for the WC2010... I guess its either Fifa
wasn't pleased to being made use of and came out to give reason why
they wanted what and not the $100 million published by our local
newspapers so as to con us further... (though the source is not
official as well) or someone realised the figure $100m was too
ridiculous to belief and adjusted it to be more believable...
It is amazing that they can come up with a figure of $100
million from $40m in the first place... I must say even at
$40m, i am suspecting it right now cos if Sg's have say, 250,000
subscriber to sports with Starhub, it will still cost each $160
just to pay for the rights not including the other cost to the
provider... Sure there could be some commercial returns but there
will also be manpower cost, equipment cost and other cost incur as
well... not to mention the profits they expect to generate from
this too...
To me, this whole issue is just crazy... Someone wants to
benefit from this big time... Maybe more than just one party so the
big con job to get us to belief...
Now I am even sceptical of the sum Singtel reported to have
bid for the EPL cos Malaysia's Astro bid only came up to $800
Ringgit which works out to around S$332,800. Sg with a
smaller population base, Singtel bid $400m ? $350m ?
I feel if the price is more than $50, I may not want to
subscript out of principle. And those thinking of trying your
luck with Indon and RTM channels can forget it, Our guys here will
do their duty and block the signal like they did back in 2006.
You can be sure of that...
