Here's why M1 is keeping its hands off premium content bidding war

22 Aug 2013 - Singapore Business Review
Launch of IPTV underway. According to CIMB, the main motivations for M1 to launch IPTV is its view that there is a niche for tier-2 content and to increase stickiness among its customers. The telco believes that Singapore is too small for premium content and does not want to engage in a bidding war for ...
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Why M1 isn't likely to gain much from its internet TV service rollout

30 Jul 2013 - Singapore Business Review
MiBox is worth $8 a month. According to OCBC, M1 Ltd has announced its own Internet TV service – MiBox, which offers video-ondemand entertainment and educational titles, games, e-books and apps. Priced at just S$8/month with a 2-year contract for M1 fibre customers (S$12/month for non-M1 subscribers), ...
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M1 launches MiBox for untapped pay TV segment

29 Jul 2013 - Singapore Business Review
See what the telco is offering. Over the weekend, M1 announced the launch of MiBox (an Android set-top box) that comes with a selection of free dramas, variety shows and other content. The service is priced at S$8 a month with a 2-year contract for M1 fibre customers (S$12 per month for non-M1 fibre ...
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3 big reasons behind M1's solid 2Q13 results

18 Jul 2013 - Singapore Business Review
Thanks to resilient EBITDA margin. According to CIMB, M1 posted a solid 2Q13 firstly because of the surge in mobile service revenue, up 8% yoy in 2Q (the highest in morethan 10 years). Postpaid ARPU rose 2% qoq, which CIMB believes indicates the beginning of an upward trend in ARPUs, driven by the rapid ...
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2 reasons to bet big on M1 stock

17 Jul 2013 - Singapore Business Review
Strongest telco pick by far, says Maybank. The research firms said that M1 investors stand to benefit from "the greatest potential upside from 4G adoption, which we believe will happen faster and sooner than expected in 2013, and finallt the chance to monetise surging data usage in Singapore now that ...
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M1 revenue slips 1.5% in 1H 2013

17 Jul 2013 - Singapore Business Review
Should investors worry about it? M1 Ltd reported its 2Q13 results last evening, where revenue grew 5.3% YoY (+0.6% QoQ) to S$244.5m. OCBC said it was just 1.4% shy of their forecast, as smartphone customers and usage continue to drive revenue growth. But it notes that this resulted in a lower service ...
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M1's profit jumped 6.1% to $80.2m in 1H13

16 Jul 2013 - Singapore Business Review
55,000 customers were added to its base. According to a release, for the first half of FY2013, service revenue grew 6.5% year-on-year to S$406.9 million, driven by growth in customer base and higher revenue from mobile data. Net profit after tax increased 6.1% year-on-year to S$80.2 million. For the ...
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Will This New Technology Help the Telcos?

10 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Over-the-top (OTT) messaging services like Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and Apple iMessage are gaining in popularity with mobile users, at the expense of the short messaging service (SMS) market. According to research done by Informa, it was revealed that an average of 19.1 billion OTT messages sent ...
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Why Investors Should Not Focus Solely On Share Prices

28 Jun 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The stock market is a place where participants can buy and sell pieces of ownership of publicly-listed companies with prices quoted on a daily basis. At any one point in time, prices of these listed-companies are available at the click of a mouse. But, that convenience alone can’t help anyone make intelligent ...
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Tug-Of-Fools: StarHub

28 Jun 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
This week’s Tug-Of-Fools will see Chong Ser Jing and Sudhan P tussle over Singapore’s second-largest telecom company StarHub (SGX: CC3). StarHub is a quadruple-play communications company – it provides fixed-line, mobile, internet and television services. It was granted a telecom licence in 1998 when ...
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