CASE leaves investigation of cable TV hikes to Competition C
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It's a fascist equivalent of the Office of Fair Trading, but serves no purpose remotely close to the functions of its British counterpart.Originally posted by choco B:We have a Competition Commission?
WTH is that?
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Do you honestly think the family of the tyrant running this regime has so many capable family members holding/held key positions in all the local profit-making ventures on merit? If you need any evidence, just look to the failure who conducted the billion-dollar-losing deal with Shincorp...Originally posted by rane:think gahmen owns STarhub or has shares in STarhub, is this true? Initially, when STarhub was set up thought I read that gahmen is/was in it!! -
I read the paper last week in which the writer insinuate the cable hikes to going to harm the company soon as people can load tv programmesOriginally posted by walesa:It's a fascist equivalent of the Office of Fair Trading, but serves no purpose remotely close to the functions of its British counterpart.
from internet. Look at at the case of tower reords, people buy song from the internet n due to intense ompetition, they need to close already. -
That explains (part of) the reason why this regime is so desperate to clamp down on piracy and protect "intellectual property", doesn't it?Originally posted by will4:I read the paper last week in which the writer insinuate the cable hikes to going to harm the company soon as people can load tv programmes
from internet. Look at at the case of tower reords, people buy song from the internet n due to intense ompetition, they need to close already.
Afterall, the internet has offered consumers - especially those living in despotic regimes deprived of sensible choices in a competitive market - with options previous medium could never offer. If Internet-TV is the way of the future(and that future shouldn't be too far away), it can only be beneficial to the consumers... -
I remember many local liked to go JB, Malaysia buy grocery n they purposely thru report saying they open Woodlands centre to offer gorcery cheaperOriginally posted by walesa:That explains (part of) the reason why this regime is so desperate to clamp down on piracy and protect "intellectual property", doesn't it?
Afterall, the internet has offered consumers - especially those living in despotic regimes deprived of sensible choices in a competitive market - with options previous medium could never offer. If Internet-TV is the way of the future(and that future shouldn't be too far away), it can only be beneficial to the consumers...
than JB.
Imagine if many local go to JB, Malaysia to buy gocery, what will happpned to retail stores in here? -
what competition? there's only one epl distributor....singtel bidded for it too isn't it? if anything, it drove up the price starhub has to pay....sg is far too small for duopoly...they tried with the media which ended up reporting the same censored shit....they tried with transport and now sbs wants to give up the trains...
what we need is to rein in the capitalism over-drive.....at the rate prices are sky-rocketing, i wouldn't mind a good dose of socialism.... -
Originally posted by walesa:
yeah, it is madam ho ching, a member of the lee family. well, it goes without saying . . . . . . . . la la la!!!
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