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StarHub<\/b> and MyRepublic Group Limited<\/b> announced that MyRepublic is moving all of its 4G mobile subscribers onto the StarHub network, extending a 5G MVNO wholesale arrangement the two companies have run since January 2023, following an announcement made at the end of 2022<\/u>. This effectively brings all of MyRepublic\u2019s mobile customers under the StarHub umbrella.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The release<\/u> describes the move as an expanded partnership building on an existing relationship. It left out that those 4G subscribers were on M1\u2019s network.<\/p>\nThe bit the release leaves out<\/h2>\n
MyRepublic\u2019s mobile arm has run a split arrangement for years. Its 5G service sat on StarHub\u2019s network under the wholesale deal struck in 2022. Its 4G service has been on M1\u2019s network since October 2020, when the two companies announced an MVNO partnership<\/u> that gave MyRepublic access to M1\u2019s infrastructure and gave M1 a route to MyRepublic\u2019s fibre broadband base.<\/p>\n
That arrangement ends with this announcement. Every MyRepublic mobile customer, on either generation of network, will be a StarHub wholesale customer.<\/p>\n
For StarHub, the gain is straightforward. For M1, currently running as a standalone business after Simba\u2019s S$1.43 billion acquisition collapsed in May<\/u>, losing an entire MVNO\u2019s 4G base is an unwelcome development in a year that has already produced several.<\/p>\n
Nikhil Eapen<\/b>, StarHub\u2019s chief executive, said:<\/p>\n \u201cWith this step, we further extend material lead in revenue market share as Singapore\u2019s strong number two mobile operator. We have also taken another step toward leading the ongoing consolidation of Singapore\u2019s telecommunications market.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Matt Williams<\/b>, StarHub\u2019s chief of consumer business group and its chief executive designate, tied the announcement directly to another one. \u201cTogether with the migration of redONE subscribers to eight on the StarHub network, this builds greater scale across our business,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The reference needs unpacking for anyone who has not been following the MVNO market closely. redONE Mobile<\/u><\/b> ceased operations in Singapore on 30 June 2026<\/u>, six years after entering the market in 2019 with a proposition built around Malaysia-Singapore cross-border data. Its customers were steered towards eight<\/b>, a rival MVNO that styles its name in lower case and, crucially, already runs on StarHub\u2019s network. Subscribers were offered free 5G SIM cards, up to two months of free service and the ability to keep their numbers.<\/p>\n From a customer\u2019s perspective, which telco\u2019s logo appears on the SIM matters far less than whose network carries the traffic, as some prefer to use a specific carrier.<\/p>\n Three virtual operators have left or been absorbed in seven months.<\/p>\n The pattern predates this year. Grid Mobile shut in December 2021, sending customers to GOMO or Vivifi depending on their profile.<\/p>\n Singapore\u2019s MVNO market has competed almost entirely on price, and a look at current plan pricing shows how far that has gone. Several providers now sell 500GB or more for around S$10 a month, and cost per gigabyte across the market has roughly halved since late 2025. Consumers have done well out of it. Operators buying wholesale capacity have found it harder to make the numbers work, and survival has become its own form of differentiation.<\/p>\n StarHub bought MyRepublic\u2019s broadband business<\/u> outright in August 2025 for S$105.2 million<\/b>, picking up the remaining 49.9 percent equity stake it did not already own along with key operational assets and the MyRepublic brand in Singapore. The deal comprised roughly S$94.3 million for the shares and more than S$10.8 million for assets and brand, with the equity payment largely offset against an existing S$74.2 million loan from StarHub to MyRepublic.<\/p>\n The timing then was notable too. It landed one day after Keppel announced it would sell M1\u2019s telco business to Simba, a deal market watchers had expected StarHub to make.<\/p>\n What StarHub did not buy was MyRepublic\u2019s mobile business, which stayed with MyRepublic Group along with its New Zealand operations and digital platform arm. That produced an unusual arrangement: StarHub owns the MyRepublic brand for broadband in Singapore, while a separate company continues to sell mobile services under the same name.<\/p>\n This week\u2019s announcement does not change that ownership structure. It changes whose network the mobile side runs on.<\/p>\n Anyone tracking network performance will spot a further wrinkle. In Ookla\u2019s H1 2026 Speedtest Connectivity Report, MyRepublic was named the fastest fixed ISP in Singapore, with a median download of 479.34Mbps and a median upload of 394.39Mbps. That business now belongs to StarHub.<\/p>\n Right now, MyRepublic customers can just sit back as the telcos sort things out.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThere is no need for MyRepublic 4G customers to do anything at this stage,\u201d said Vaughan Baker<\/b>, MyRepublic\u2019s group chief executive. \u201cOur customer service team will be in touch soon to ensure a smooth network transition.\u201d<\/p>\n StarHub says customers will keep access to its nationwide 4G and 5G network throughout the transition.<\/p>\n Two practical questions the announcement leaves open. Neither company has said whether affected customers will need a new SIM card, which redONE customers did when they moved to eight. And no timeline has been given for when the migration begins or completes.<\/p>\n Customers on M1-dependent features, particularly anyone who chose MyRepublic on the strength of M1\u2019s coverage in a specific location, may want to pay attention to how their signal behaves once the switch happens. In Opensignal\u2019s July 2026 report<\/u>, StarHub led the market on download speed at 172.7Mbps against M1\u2019s 146.6Mbps, though M1 held a narrow lead on 5G download speed and the two operators share 5G infrastructure through the Antina joint venture in any case.<\/p>\n In that sense, the announcement is about more than moving customers from one network to another. It highlights how Singapore\u2019s telecommunications market continues to mature, with collaboration increasingly becoming as important as competition in shaping the next phase of mobile connectivity.<\/p>\n StarHub and MyRepublic Group Limited announced that MyRepublic is moving all of its 4G mobile subscribers onto the StarHub network, extending a 5G MVNO wholesale…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[746,20825,6939,1013],"class_list":["post-75284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-customers","tag-myrepublic","tag-starhub","tag-takes","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nSingapore\u2019s MVNO market is thinning out<\/h2>\n
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