MyRepublic bears quite a few similarities to a certain political party… In an interview with e27, CEO of prospective 4th telco MyRepublic, Malcolm Rodrigues, did not mince his words when talking about the existing telcos in Singapore, claiming that that they became too arrogant and comfortable. That got us to thinking, “Hmm, we’ve heard all this before from a certain political party — the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP)!” #1 is the line with the uncanny resemblance, and we’ve picked out several other instances from the interview which show MyRepublic’s similarity to SDP: 1. “I think the incumbents have become arrogant in their approach historically and I think they have burned bridges with a lot of their customers” SDP: “…when society has a free and pluralistic media, where the people are able to exercise our freedoms of speech and assembly, and are able to vote in genuinely free and fair elections the PAP will not be so arrogant and insensitive to the wishes of the people.” 2. “The pricing (of Internet plans, especially amongst businesses) is still out of whack. We look at some of the prices and it’s huge. We think we can go in and offer a 10MB to 1GB point-to-point […]
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