SingTel rolls out new mobile plans with Wi-Fi

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SingTel has become the first telecommunications company here to introduce mobile plans bundled with Wi-Fi, a move that industry analysts say is in response to increasingly congested 3G or 4G networks.

SingTel said its Wi-Fi network — with average speeds of 4Mbps to 10Mbps — will provide connectivity that is five times faster than free public Wi-Fi networks, such as Wireless@SG.

SingTel will offer more than 100 hot spots at 11 locations, including popular shopping malls, once the mobile plans are launched on Aug 19.

Hot spots will also be installed in the busiest underground MRT stations, with the first three — Orchard, City Hall and Raffles Place — to be covered from Aug 22. SingTel added that it would increase the number of hot spots to about 1,000 by next March and double that number a year later.

Here’s the catch: The six new Combo plans will replace the five existing Flexi plans for new and re-contracting customers and three of these new plans will cost S$3 more, compared with the existing ones.

Besides Wi-Fi, the new plans will also offer up to 200 minutes more local talk time and up to 500 more SMSes.

For example, the Flexi Value plan, which costs S$59.90, will now be called Combo 3 and cost S$62.90. Combo 3 will offer an extra 100 minutes of talk time and 300 more SMSes.

Two days earlier, the Land Transport Authority said it would roll out the free Wireless@SG service at the platform level of 28 MRT stations.

Although analysts expect other telecommunications companies to follow in SingTel’s footsteps, M1 and StarHub are not showing any signs of doing so.