StarHub Announces New Mobile Plans

Innovative Features Includes Airtime Rollover: The First Time Ever In Singapore

Singapore, 7 September 2001 -- StarHub, Singapore's innovative info-communications provider, today announced the launch of four new post-paid mobile plans. From tomorrow, the four new post-paid mobile plans* called 'Green 100', 'Green 300', 'Gold 700' and 'Gold 1800' will be available at all StarHub shops and StarHub preferred partners' outlets. These plans will address the needs of the young and trendy as well as corporate customers.

The innovative features of all the new mobile plans include:

• Airtime Rollover**: For the first time ever in Singapore, mobile customers are able to bring over the previous month's unused free minutes to the current month (subject to the maximum free minutes packaged in the plan).
• StarHub-to-StarHub FREE Incoming Calls***: Free incoming local calls for all StarHub mobile customers to StarHub mobile customers.
• 380 FREE outgoing SMS**** per month, and
• Per Second Billing*****.

"StarHub is again the first in Singapore to introduce another new and innovative feature in our mobile price plans for our customers - Airtime Rollover. Airtime Rollover effectively means that our customers will have an extended opportunity to use up free minutes. Customers who are unable to use up their free minutes within the month can now roll over their unused minutes to the next month without losing them. This translates to flexibility and savings for our customers," said Mr Chan Kin Hung, Vice President, StarHub Mobile.

"StarHub-to-StarHub Free Incoming Calls available in our new Gold and Green price plans mean that our customers can continue to save on their phone bills, as they need not pay for incoming local calls received from another StarHub mobile customer. StarHub remains the first and only operator in Singapore to offer Free Incoming Calls, and now, Airtime Rollover. Such innovative features bring real value to customers," added Mr Chan.

"We listened to our customers and based on their feedback for more value-added services, we implemented the unique features in the new plans. These four new price plans offer more to our customers who want a complete package - Airtime Rollover, free SMS and StarHub-to-StarHub Free Incoming Calls. StarHub is all about offering our customers choices. We have a total range of services which includes a mobile plan that will suit the needs of the savvy mobile customer out there today," said Mr Chan.

To celebrate the launch of the four new price plans, customers who sign up for a new line by 31 October 2001 will enjoy six months' free subscription as well as receive 50% off the rate of all incoming local calls for 12 months. New mobile customers can sign up for StarHub mobile plans at any StarHub shop (StarHub Centre, OUB Centre and Tampines Mall) or any of the 200 StarHub preferred partners' outlets in Singapore.

Existing StarHub mobile customers who had either signed up for a PowerTalk (S$68 monthly subscription fee) or PowerPlay (S$22 monthly subscription fee) mobile service plan will continue to benefit from free incoming local calls from all callers until 31 March 2004. (Airtime Rollover and free SMS not included in these price plans).

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Editor's Notes

*A table of the new price plans:

+ Customers who sign up by 31 October 2001 will enjoy the last 6 months' subscription of the first year FREE and 50% off the rate of all incoming local calls for 12 months.

**Airtime Rollover: For the first time ever in Singapore, the mobile customer is able to bring over the previous month's unused free minutes to the current month. This is subjected to the maximum free minutes packaged in the plan. If the customer signs up for Green 100, he is able to rollover a maximum of 100 minutes. For example:

***StarHub-to-StarHub Free Incoming Calls applies to the new price plans only. Free incoming local calls are available for all StarHub mobile to StarHub mobile only.

****After the free 380 Short Message Service (SMS) is used up, a charge of $0.05 per outgoing message will be levied. Incoming SMS is free and there is no rollover of SMS.

*****Per Second Billing: no other local operator offers per second billing. Other operators bill the first full minute and then in subsequent blocks of six seconds. This means that the StarHub mobile customer pays only for what he uses. Supposing the customer uses 19 seconds, we will ONLY bill for 19 seconds and NOT the full minute. (Per second charge = S$0.0025).