SingTel to raise phone rates

SingTel to raise phone rates

Fixed-line telephone customers will soon have to pay an additional $10 a year in subscription rates. -AsiaOne

Mon, Oct 06, 2008
AsiaOne

SingTel fixed-line telephone customers will soon have to pay an additional $10 a year in subscription rates. The revision, starting from 1 January 2009, will represent an increase of 83 cents a month.

This is the first rate revision by Singtel in 18 years for its fixed-line telephone subscription and call charges.

With the revision, residential customers will now pay $110 per annum and business customers will pay $160.

Call charges will increase to 0.8 cents from 0.7 cents per 30-second block during peak hours and per 60-second block during off-peak hours.

To reflect changes in call traffic patterns, peak hours will also be revised to 9am to 7pm from 8am to 6pm, Mondays to Fridays. Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays are off-peak.

The new rates will translate to an additional cost of not more than $1.50 a month for most customers.

Mr Allen Lew, SingTel?s CEO Singapore, said: ?We have held off rate revisions for 18 years despite rising costs. Over the years, the two main cost components, manpower and materials, have increased substantially. The recent rapid increase in utility costs has also pushed up our running costs.??

Mr Lew stressed that with this adjustment, SingTel's charges still remains one of the lowest in the region.

To help households that need financial assistance and cushion the effect of the rate revisions, SingTel will provide $1 million worth of $10 credit vouchers. Residents who need assistance can approach their Citizens? Consultative Committees or People?s Association grassroots leaders.

You know what they're gonna start charging for next? Air. To breathe the nice and clean air (disputable during the haze season) in Singapore, we will need to pay for it. Each breathe will only cost 0.8 cents per lung full. Following that, every heartbeat will be charged at 0.8 cents per beat. Wanna stay alive? You need to pay.

They can give you $1 million worth of credit means they already know how much more they will earn lah. Don't come and act nice leh. I'm not going to fall for all these tricks and gimmicks anymore. Give you a chicken wing but take back a whole chicken. Worst part is that they are the only chickens farmers around. No one can fight. @#$%#@$%. I wonder if everyone cancel phone line how. Hahahaha.