Singtel today announced that it will offer Singapore’s first 10Gbps fibre broadband service to residential customers starting this month. It was piloted for a selected group of customers last year and uses next-gen 10GPON or Gigabit Passive Optical Network. It also features four 1Gbps ports so that it multi-user environments such as home offices and large households.
“Using the 10Gbps connection, a 2-hour Full HD movie can be downloaded within 90 seconds while a 2-hour 4K movie can be downloaded in 6 minutes using a 10Gbps connection,” said the company.
It is priced at S$189 ( US$ 132 / Rs. 9,000 approx.) per month with a 24-month contract and includes, 10G Optical Network Router (ONR) and Wireless Dual-Band AC router. For limited period it also offers complimentary WiFi Mesh Dual Pack worth S$24 that expands home broadband network’s wireless coverage range, eliminating WiFi dead spots within your home.
Commenting on the announcement, Goh Seow Eng, MD, Home, Consumer Singapore, Singtel, said:
We made a commitment to our customers to bring them the best network innovations, the very latest technologies for work and play. We recognise that residential customers are using greater bandwidth and requiring faster speeds for their online activities. Our 10Gbps Fibre Home Bundle will offer households the fastest fibre broadband experience in Singapore.