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By Byron Ho
StarHub and M1 have announced that they will start selling iPhones on Wednesday.
This comes just five months after SingTel became the first to introduce the new and improved iPhone 3G-S.
Just what does this mean for consumers?
The Newsdesk reports.
Now, it will be easier for consumers to get hold of an iPhone. StarHub and M1 are launching it in time for Christmas. This puts an end to the one year or so monopoly that SingTel had on the product in Singapore.
StarHub says tens of thousands of customers have pre-registered for the iPhone since the 16th of November. They'll be given priority when it launches on Wednesday.
Just like Singtel when it first introduced the iPhone in September last year, both StarHub and M1 are offering four new plans, each tailored for subscribers who take up the iPhones with a two-year contract.
Depending on the model and plan chosen, StarHub customers will get the phone for free or pay up to six hundred and sixty eight dollars for it.
M1 customers pay between nothing and 658 dollars.
StarHub's iPhone plans begin at 38 dollars a month while the M1 iPhone plans start at 36 dollars.
Starhub's top end plan offers unlimited data traffic; the rest comes with 1 GB of data traffic.
This was lesser than M1's data bundle where its cheapest plan of 36 dollars a month came with 10 GB of data traffic. But hours later, Starhub announced that they will up the 1 GB of data traffic for the cheaper plans to 12.
Analysts say overall data charges are likely to fall and that the bundle from providers are going to get more generous.
Marc Einstein is from consulting firm Frost and Sullivan.
"The development is very interesting, because I think Singapore will certainly be the only country in the world where all of the mobile operators are offering the iPhone. And so I think what this really means is that we'll see more innovation in terms of the kind of plans that are offered, in terms of data usage packages , content etecetra. That will be the What also makes it interesting is that, last year we had the introduction of mobile number portability into Singapore and so what this means is that many people that maybe have an existing iPhone plan with SingTel, have the option of not changing to one but two other companies."
This could spark a price war.
Singtel already says it will announce its new revised iPhone plans within the next few days, which will be extended to new and existing customers.
Starhub says it expects to announce more innovative mobile ideas soon.
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