Singtel wants to fine businesses that are telecasting world cup on more than 1 tv scr

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SINGTEL WANTS TO FINE BUSINESSES THAT ARE TELECASTING WORLD CUP ON MORE THAN 1 TV SCREEN

Post date:
5 Jul 2014 - 3:42pm








SingTel has started to conduct spot checks on commercial world cup subscribers to try and catch and fine people who are broadcasting the World Cup matches on more than 1 TV screen without paying for the additional screens.
Some commercial subscribers of the SingTel broadcast of the World Cup have "daisy-chained" the signal through a multi-port switcher to enable the one subscription broadcast to be played on multiple TV screens.
SingTel says that this is a breach of the contract terms and companies found to be doing this may have their subscription cancelled, and they could be fined.
The available packages for commercial subscribers is $2,888 for the two MioTV World Cup channels. Users who want to show the matches on more than one screen need to pay an additional $1,888 for each extra screen.
If the TV screen is more than 50 inches, then the cost is $4,888 and $2,888 for each additional screen.
Last week, SingTel had caught one coffee shop owner illegally broadcasting the signal to multiple TVs without having paid for the additional screens. The coffee shop owner explained that he had done so because the price was simply too high to pay for the use of more than1 screen.
While many countries around the world are showing all the World Cup Matches for free, subscribers in Singapore are forced to pay very high fees just to watch the matches.
The use of multi-port switchers has been around since last world cup when the prices of subscribing to the World Cup was also extremely high and SingTel was the only provider.
Another factor in the growing number of illegal broadcasters is that the high costs are difficult to justify when the matches are occurring during the wee hours of the mornings. Business owners are finding it difficult to predict how much business may come to their stores as a result of the world cup and when the costs are several thousands of dollars, it makes sense to only pay the minimum.
such practices are not commonplace and business owners can set up daisy chains for as little as $50 as the set up is simple and that is all that a multi-port switch costs.
Other businesses simply stream the World Cup from the internet for free and set up TVs with HDMI cables on computers.


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