MyRepublic partners StarHub to offer mobile services
MyRepublic CEO Malcom Rodrigues.
SINGAPORE – Mobile phone users here will now have more options to choose from when it comes to mobile services, after fibre broadband company MyRepublic announced its Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) partnership with StarHub on Thursday (May 3).
While no details on its mobile services plans and bundles were provided, MyRepublic said in a media release that it expects to launch them "very soon".
Mr Yap Yong Teck, managing director of MyRepublic Singapore said: "MyRepublic has resonated with Singapore's younger, more tech-savvy crowd, and that is where we will continue with focus with our mobility services."
MyRepublic's partnership with StarHub will allow it to utilise the latter's mobile network infrastructure to offer mobile services here. The agreement is similar to what Singapore's first MVNO, Circles.Life, signed with M1.
In 2015, MyRepublic announced its plans to launch mobile services here, but the company lost its bid for the fourth telco licence to Australia's TPG Telecom.
TPG is planning to kick off its mobile services in the second half of the year, and it aims to attract elderly users by offering a free mobile plan for the first two years.
MyRepublic is the fourth MVNO to launch in Singapore after Circles.Life, Zero Mobile, and Zero1, which was launched in March and leases its mobile network from Singtel.
Mr Malcolm Rodrigues, MyRepublic's chief executive officer added that the company had promised to "bring a better kind of mobile service to Singapore, and we believe we can still do that".
