Re: Why Singapore internet price is too high

supposing that u didn't count the following:

1. low overhead - shop rental, manpower
2. economy of scale (10 mbps shared by 100 computers)
3. no need last-mile solutions to each house
4. dirt cheap computers

China is developing country. It's prices are considerablely low because the
mainstream businesses are still in the low-margin industries. Not like
Singapore, where our mainstream industries are high-tech, banking, etc.

If you wish to pay 40 cents, get prepare to earn only $40 per hour for an
internet cafe (100 PC).



"Di Da Di" <didadi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The current boradband prices between the players are so artificial in that
> they almost no diffrent from each other. Beside the monhtly price at the
> lowest at $58 per month is still very high and even more expensive than in
> undeveloped country like china.
>
> I was recently in China and during that time I went to internet cafe to do
> some emails and internet surfing. There are plenty of internet cafes in
> China and all of them by now are licensed and so on.
>
> I went to one which has 100 of computers and most of the people are for
> gaming and so on. The lovely counter girl told me that for email the price
> per hour is $2 Rmb which is omly Singapore 40 cents per hour. If for
gaming,
> the price is $4 Rmb, which is 80 Singapore 80 cent per hour.
>
> Why is that our internet is so aritficial as it seems to be controlled by
> the same bosses that run the other two. If Singapore is adevleoped
country
> and efficient in infrastructures, why is it that it is still so expensive
> that have no changed over the past 10 years when China is a undeveloped
> country but internet price is dirt cheap.
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